SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 142.
Richmond, June 20, 1862.

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VII. Colonel George C. Gibbs will immediately appoint a quartermaster for the prisoners to call on the commissary at Lynchburg for rations such as are furnished our own soldiers. the commanding officer at Lynchburg will order the commissary at that post to furnish rations on the requisition of Colonel Gibbs' quartermaster for the prisoners.

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By command of the Secretary of War;

JNO WITHERS.

Assistant Adjutant-General.

ABERDEEN, MISS., June 20, 1862.

Honorable REUBEN DAVIS, or if absent,
Honorable J. P. BENJAMIN.

DEAR SIR: I have stated to friends of your constituents that I had some fifty or sixty of my constituents of the Twentieth Indiana Volunteers captured at Hatteras and now in confinement on South or North Carolina. If on the receipt of this letter these captured Indianian are still unexchanged I am authorized by Secretary Stanton to say that on their discharge on parole an equal number of your constituents from the inclosed list will be similarly released.

Respectfully, yours,

SCHUYLER COLFAX.

[Sub-inclosure.]

List of officers and privates* of Third Mississippi Regiment held as prisoners of war at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill.

John C. Turner, first lieutenant; William H. Gwyn, second lieutenant; B. H. Estes, third lieutenant.

CONFEDERATE HOSPITAL, Richmond, Va., June 21, 1862.

General G. W. RANDOLPH, Secretary of War.

GENERAL: I most respectfully ask that I may be paroled and sent home. The erysipelas is in the hospital and if it gets in my wound

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*Nominal list of seven non-commissioned officers and fifty-seven privates omitted.

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