[Second indorsement.]

Forward an estimate of the cost of erecting the buildings.

E. M. STANTON.

[Third indorsement.]

WAR DEPARTMENT, November 7, 1863.

These papers are respectfully referred to the Commissary-General of Prisoners. The Secretary of War is not disposed at this time, in view of the treatment our prisoners of war are receiving at the hands of the enemy, to erect fine establishments for their prisoners in our hands. Whatever is indispensable, however, to prevent suffering, whether from the effects of the weather or other causes, will be provided by commanding officers of prison establishments if ordinary means fail, by the use of the prison fund if necessary to that end, as far as it will so, Nothing more will be authorized.

By order of the Secretary of War:

JAS. A. HARDIE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA,
Fort Monroe, September 24, 1863.

Colonel WILLIAM HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners:

COLONEL: On the 22nd instant Brigadier General Charles K. Graham, U. S. Volunteers, was exchanged for Brigadier-General Kemper. His attendant, N. G. Bowler, Company A, Seventh Virginia [sic].

The following named anon-combatants were released from Libby Prison at the same date: Dr. Alexander McDonald, Rev. Mr. Scandlin, members of the Sanitary Commission; Leonard Brink, Henry E. Wrigley.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

S. A. MEREDITH,

Brigadier-General and Commissioner for Exchange.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA,
Fort Monroe, September 24, 1863.

Honorable R. OULD, Agent of Exchange, Richmond, Va.:

SIR: To meet your declaration of exchange of the 12th instant I inform you that I have this day announced the following:

A declaration of exchange having been announced by R. Ould, esq., agent for exchange, at Richmond, Va., dated September 12, 1863, to meet the same in part, as equivalents, it is hereby declared that all officers and men of the U. S. Army captured and paroled at any time previous to the 1st September, 1863, are duly exchanged.

S. A. MEREDITH,

Brigadier-General and Commissioner for Exchange.

The number of officers covered by the first five

sections of your declaration is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,208

The number of enlisted men is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,865

The number of officers covered by sixth section

is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

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The number of enlisted men is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,014

Making a total of officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,280

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And total of enlisted men. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,879

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Aggregate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,159