INDIANAPOLIS, IND., June 13, 1864.

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTION, Secretary of War:

My present opinion is that a military arrest and trial would be impolitic and provoke trouble in Ohio, Kentucky, a d Indiana. If they are amenable to a civil prosecution it would be well received and sustained. I will think further of it and write you. At present I would not move by the military power.

JOHN BROUGH.

CINCINNATI, June 13, 1864.

General H. W. HALLECK, Chief of Staff:

The officers and men of the One hundred and seventy- first and One hundred and sixty- eight Ohio national Guard that were captured on the 11th of June at and near Cynthiana, have arrived in this city, and I have sent them to Camp Dennison. They have been paroled, but so far as I can learn, in an unauthorized manner. So soon as I can get a report it will be forwarded. General Hobson and the field officers are at Falmouth, Ky., on some conditional parole, the terms of which I have not learned. *

S. P. HEINTZELMAN,

Major-General.

OFFICE COMMISSARY- GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Washington, D. C., June 13, 1864.

Major General B. F. BUTLER,

Commissioner for Exchange, Fort Monroe, Va.:

GENERAL: By direction of the Secretary of War, I have the honor to inclose herewith an order directing as an act of retaliation that Major W. P. Elliott, commissary of subsistence of General Morgan's staff, a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware, be placed in close confinement in a cell and receive the same treatment in all respects as is received by Major Nathan Goff, Fourth Regiment West Virginia Cavalry, who is now a prisoner of war in Richmond. The Secretary of War directs that you communicate information of this order to the rebel authorities at Richmond as soon as convenient by the usual flag- of- truce boat from Fort Monroe.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. HOFFMAN,

Colonel Third Infantry and Commissary- General of Prisoners.

[Inclosure.]

OFFICE COMMISSARY- GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Washington, D. C., June 13, 1864.

Brigadier General A. SCHOEPF, Commanding Fort Delaware, Del:

GENERAL: The authorities at Richmond having placed Major Nathan Goff, Fourth Regiment West Virginia Cavalry, a prisoner of war in their hands, in close confinement in a cell, the Sectary of War directs that a major of their army be confined in like manner and receive the same treatment in all respects as is received by Major Goff. I therefore respectfully request you will place Major W. P. Elliott, commissary

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*For dispatch in full see Series I, Vol. XXXIX, Part II, p. 113.

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