that you will cause him to be immediately released, as this Government does not hold any Confederate prisoners under simiaar circumstances.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

BENJ. F. BUTLER,

Major-General and Commissioner for Exchange.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH, CAROLINA,
OFFICE COMMISSIONER FOR EXCHANGE,

Fort Monroe, Va., April 30, 1864.

Honorable ROBERT OULD, Agent for Exchange, Richmond, Va.:

SIR: I have the honor to call your attention to the following-named citizens, prisoners, who are in confinement at Salisbury, N. C., viz:

1. Daniel Gerhart, a citizen of Miami County, Ohio, sixty years of age, who sent to Winchester, Va., to see his son in the Union Army, the sick. He was there made prisoner, and has since been held as such by you authorities.

2. Frank B. Doran, made prisoner while attending to his brother, who was dangerously sick at Oxford, Miss.

I have to request that you will immediately cause these men to be released, as we do not hold any Confederate prisoners captured under similar circumstances.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

BENJ. F. BUTLER,

Major-General and Commissioner for Exchange.

FORT MONROE, VA., May 1, 1864.

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War:

Flag-of-truce boat is in with 400 sick prisoners. The necessity of haste renders it imperative that these prisoners should be landed at the hospital at Annapolis. Have accordingly so ordered Major Mulford. I trust the order will be approved.

BENJ. F. BUTLER,

Major-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, May 1, 1864.

Major-General BUTLER:

Your action in sending prisoners to Annapolis is approved, and orders given to Colonel Hoffman to have arrangements ready for receiving them.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, Numbers 55.
Alexandria, La., May 1, 1864.

Prisoners of war to the number of 532 privates, or their equivalent, captured in the Teche campaign during the months of October, November, and December, 1863, and delivered on parole by Major General W. B. Franklin, at stage station, midway between New Iberia and Vermilionville, La., December5, 1863, and who are now at Camp Parole, New Orleans, are hereby declared duly exchanged, and will at once