be carried into effect in respect to any portion of said brigade not embraced in such exchange declared at Richmond.

CHARLES C. DWIGHT,

Colonel and Agt. of Exchange, Military Division of West Mississippi.

IG. SZYMANSKI,

Assistant Adjutant-General and Assistant Agent of Exchange.

Approved August 4, 1864.

ED. R. S. CANBY,

Major-General, Commanding.

CAMP SUMTER, Andersonville, July 28, 1864.

Captain D. W. VOWLES,

Captain W. S. WINDER:

CAPTAINS: By Special Orders, Numbers 143, you will proceed, as directed, to select a site for a new prison in the neighborhood therein designated. After selecting the site you will secure by rent the land, water privileges, timber, and such houses adjacent as may be thought advisable. You will use a found discretion in your selection, conferring with reliable men in the vicinity as to the health of the location, &c.

Notify me by telegrams as soon as you have made the selection.

Respectfully,

JNO H. WINDER,

Brigadier-General.

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

Fort Monroe, Va., July 29, 1864.

Colonel W. HOFFMAN,

Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C.:

COLONEL: The steamer New York is now in Philadelphia undergoing repairs, and is expected to be ready to return here early next week, in which case I can receive the rebel medical officers now confined at Fort Delaware, and thus save the trouble and expense of an extra or special guard from there. It this meet your approbation please instruct General Schoepf to deliver to me such as you desire to have returned to their own lines. I expect to go up early next week, and if there are any medical officers in Washington or at Point Lookout to be sent home they may be forwarded here at once.

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

JNO E. MULFORD,

Major and Assistant Agent for Exchange.

HDQRS. FOR LAFAYETTE, N. Y., Harbor, July 29, 1864.

Colonel WILLIAM HOFFMAN,

Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C.:

COLONEL: In reply to your telegram of this date I have the honor to submit the following statement about the conspiracy referred to in my communication of the 24th instant. H. B. Frazer, an old man over sixty years of age, confined here since January 9, 1864, sent me an