[Fourth indorsement.]

HEADQUARTERS POST, Richmond, July 6, 1864.

Respectfully forwarded to Adjutant and Inspector General with indorsement of Major Carrington, provost-marshal.

W. M. GARDNER,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.

[Fifth indorsement.]

ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,

July 13, 1864.

Respectfully submitted to the Secretary of War:

H. L. CLAY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Sixth indorsement.]

JULY 15, 1864.

QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL:

Would it not be better to have all these funds given to you as they are received, to be drawn for as needed?

By order:

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Assistant Secretary of War.

[Seventh indorsement.]

JULY 18, 1864.

Respectfully returned to the Secretary of War.

The plan proposed by Major Carrington is practically turning over the Federal money to the Quartermaster's Department, as a quartermaster attached to General Gardner's command would receive this money and give credit for its value in Confederate currency.

A. R. LAWTON,

Quartermaster-General.

[Eighth indorsement.]

JULY 18, 1864.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL:

The money taken from prisoners will be placed in the hands of the quartermaster, to be disposed of under instructions from the Quartermaster-General. This rule will be followed generally wherever prisoners are.

By order:

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Assistant Secretary of War.

[Ninth indorsement.]

JULY 26, 1864.

The officer can be retained. No objection is known to his being placed with his privates. He cannot complain of miscegenation.

By order:

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Assistant Secretary of War.

[JUNE 5-7, 1864. -For correspondence of Grant and Lee, in relation to the removal of the dead and wounded from between the lines of their respective armies at Cold Harbor, Va., see Series I, Vol. XXXVI, Part III, pp. 660,638,639,666,667.]