no terms should be given the rebel party, as they are undeniably out of the pale of law. What further rations do you want from here? I am sure you can live on the country and move freely by reason of it. When do you start? I do not think they have in all over 800 available men to oppose you.

HUGH EWING,

Brigadier-General.

LOUISVILLE, KY., August 15, 1864.

Colonel GRIDER,

Bowling Green:

Order Lieutenant-Colonel Johnson, FIFTY-second Kentucky, to move toward Uniontown and menace the rebel Johnson, and to hold him, if possible, until General Hobson comes up with him.

HUGH EWING,

Brigadier-General.

COLUMBUS, OHIO, August 15, 1864.

(Received 5. 50 p. m.)

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Chief of Staff:

I have ordered the Pennsylvania regiment to Gallipolis, as it is more needed there than at Johnston's Island. There is not a company of the Veteran Reserve Corps that can be spared from guarding prisoners to man gun-boats.

S. P. HEINTZELMAN,

Major-General.

WASHINGTON, August 15, 1864-12. 35 p. m.

Major-General HEINTZELMAN,

Columbus, Ohio:

Have frequent inspections of hospitals made in your department, and convalescents fit for duty returned to their regiments.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS NORTHERN DEPARTMENT,
Columbus, Ohio, August 15, 1864.

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Chief of Staff, Washington, D. C.:

GENERAL: Your telegram of to-day* in relation to sending the Pennsylvania regiment from Johnson's Island to Gallipolis was briefly answered by telegraph. The regiment was sent to Gallipolis as the necessities there for more troops are more pressing than at Johnston's Island. I have now, in five prisoners, by the last returns, 23,646 rebel prisoners, many of them officers, and more troublesome, guarded by 6,673 men, including in this latter number 340 Second Battalion Veteran Reserve Corps. This force is barely sufficient to prevent the prisoners

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*See August 14, 3 p. m., p. 250.

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