[First indorsement.]

WAR DEPARTMENT, June 24, 1864.

Respectfully referred to the Commissary- General of Prisoners for report.

By order of the Secretary of War:

LOUIS H. PELOUZE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Second indorsement.]

OFFICE COMMISSARY- GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

June 30, 1864.

Respectfully returned to the Secretary of War.

Major Armesy was sentenced by military commission to be confined at hard labor in Fort Warren or such place as the Secretary of War may direct for the term of fifteen yards, upon the charge of recruiting men within the lines of the U. S. forces for the rebel army. (See General Orders, Numbers 397, Adjutant-General's Office, December 16, 1863.) Major Goff, of the Federal Army, has been placed in close confinement in the Libby Prison in retaliation, and Major W. P. Elliott, of the rebel army has been placed in like confinement at Fort Delaware.

W. HOFFMAN,

Colonel Third Infantry and Commissary- General of Prisoners.

[Third indorsement.]

JULY 1, 1864.

Respectfully referred to the commissioner for the exchange of prisoners for remark.

By order of the Secretary of War:

LOUIS H. PELOUZE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Fourth indorsement.]

WAR DEPARTMENT, July 6, 1864.

His application cannot be granted.

E. A. HITCHCOCK,

Major- General of Volunteers.

[Fifth indorsement.]

WAR DEPARTMENT, July 5 [6], 1864.

Respectfully referred to the Commissary- General of Prisoners.

The prisoner will be informed that his application for a commutation of sentence is not favorably considered.

By order of the Secretary of War:

LOUIS H. PELOUZE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HOG POINT, LA., June 21, 1864.

Colonel CHARLES C. DWIGHT,

Agent of Exchange on the part of Major-General Canby,

Commanding Military Division of West Mississippi:

Proposition to exchange man for man and officer for officer, or according to the scale of equivalents agreed upon in the cartel of july 22, 1862, from the captures made by the forces of General E. Kirby Smith