Report of number of men required daily for duty as guard at stockade, in batteries, to working squads of prisoners, to wood squads, as provost guards, &c. ; also number of men on duty inside of stockade.

Officers. Non- Enlisted

commissione men.

d officers.

Day guard at stockade. . 2 10 156

Day reserve at stockade. . 2 8 80

Night reserve at stockade. . 2 8 110

Guards with wood squads for 1 . . . . 100

stockade. .

Guards at batteries. . . . . 6 30

Provost guards. . 4 10 75

Outlying pickets. . . . . 8 38

Bridge guards, &c. . . . . 2 10

Men on duty in stockade. . . . . . . . 45

Hospital guard. . 1 4 69

RECAPITULATION.

Officers. Non- Enslisted Aggregate.

commissioned men.

officers.

Present for 132 282 1,788 2,202

duty. .

Required 15 56 713 784

daily for

duty. .

117 226 1,075 1,418

Unarmed. . . . . . . . . . . 452

In case of . . . . . . . . . 966

emergency

(armed).

JNO H. WINDER,

Brigadier-General.

[Indorsement.]

ANDERSON, GA., August 5, 1864.

Respectfully submitted with inspection report.

D. T. CHANDLER,

Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General.

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Washington, D. C., August 6, 1864.

Colonel C. W. HILL, Commanding Johnson's Island, Ohio:

COLONEL: The reports of Major Scovill of the condition and the police of deport, dated 24th of July and 31st of July, respectively, are received, and I am gratified to learn that active measures are being taken to put the depot in a better state of police than it has been heretofore. If, in your judgment, it will be advisable and practicable to burn time for the post order the quartermaster to do it. It is essential for the health of the command that you should have an ample supply of lime, and I think it practicable to burn it at much less expense than