OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PRISON,

DEPOT OF PRISONERS OF WAR,

Near Sandusky, Ohio, June 19, 1864.

Captain A. N. MEAD, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the condition of the prison and prisoners for the week ending to- day:

Prisoners' quarters, mess- rooms, and kitchens in very good order; grounds clean; sanitary condition continues good. Whole number of prisoners, 2,154; number in hospital, 48; deaths since last report, 1.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. A. SCOVILL,

Major 128th Regiment Ohio Vol. Infantry, Superintendent of Prison.

[Indorsement.]

HDQRS. U. S . FORCES AT JOHNSON'S ISLAND AND SANDUSKY,
Johnson's Island, Ohio, June 19, 1864.

Approved except as to the condition of prison barracks, which have received some additional damage by holes being cut in them for light and ventilation. This point was alluded to in my indorsement to the superintendent's report on the 12th instant. Have called the superintendent's attention to the necessity of restraining these acts and regulating whatever need be done to secure light and ventilation.

Respectfully forwarded to Colonel William Hoffman, Third Infantry, Commissary- General of Prisoners.

CHAS. W. HILL,

Colonel, Commanding.

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
New Orleans, June 19, 1864.

Major SZYMANSKI,

Asst. Adjt. General and Agent of Exchange Trans- Mississippi Dept:

MAJOR: I am directed by the major-general commanding to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 17th instant, and to inform you reply that Colonel C. C. Dwight, One hundred and sixtieth New york Volunteers, has been duly authorized to confer with you on the subject- matter of your communication and arrange a cartel for the exchange of prisoners off war within the limits of this command.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

DE WITT CLINTON,

Captain and Aide- de- Camp, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
New Orleans, June 19, 1864.

Colonel C. C. DWIGHT,

One hundred and sixtieth New York Volunteers:

SIR: The commanding general directs that, in arranging a cartel for the exchange of prisoners of war within the limits of this command, the cartel adopted july 22, 1862, will be taken as the basis of negotiations. The articles of that cartel, so far as applicable, will be adopted, with the understanding expressed that they shall apply to all troops in