Consolidated return for C. S. military prison, Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Ga., for the week ending August 28, 1864.

Date. Received. Recapture Total In prison In

d. received. quarters. hospital

.

Aug. 22 a130 . . . 130 29. 734 2. 380

23 b99 . . . 99 29. 717 2. 400

24 c27 . . . 27 29. 742 2. 365

25 d29 . . . 29 29. 685 2. 335

26 e162 . . . 162 29. 686 2. 344

27 f3 . . . 3 29. 572 2. 322

28 g32 1 33 29. 597 2. 304

Date. Grand Escaped. Died. Sent to Paroled,

total. other released

posts., and

exchange

d.

Aug. 22 32. 244 5 122 . . . . . .

23 32. 216 . . . 127 . . . . . .

24 32. 134 9 102 . . . . . .

25 32. 052 1 98 11 . . .

26 32. 204 . . . 103 7 . . .

27 31. 997 2 93 . . . 1

28 31. 934 1 90 . . . . . .

Date. Total In prison In Total on

died, quarters. hospital. hand.

escaped,

sent off,

paroled,

released,

and

exchanged

.

Aug. 22 127 29. 859 2. 258 32. 117

23 127 29. 816 2. 273 32. 089

24 111 29. 760 2. 263 32. 023

25 110 29. 702 2. 240 31. 942

26 110 29. 753 2. 241 31. 944

27 96 29. 672 2. 229 31. 901

28 91 29. 629 2. 214 31. 843

a 74 from Augusta, 36 from Tallahassee, 20 from Newnanville.

b 99 from Atlanta.

c 8 from Atlanta, 19 from Mobile.

d 16 from Atlanta, 13 from Columbus; 11 sent off to Macon.

e 151 from Florida, 11 from Atlanta; 7 sent off to Macon.

f 3 from Atlanta, 1 sent home.

g 32 from Atlanta.

I certify that the above is a correct copy from my prison journal.

H. WIRZ,

Captain, Commanding Prison.

Captain W. S. WINDER, Assistant Adjutant-General.

Approved:

JNO H. WINDER,

Brigadier-General.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF S. CAROLINA, GEORGIA, AND FLORIDA,
Charleston, S. C., August 29, 1864.

Major General J. G. FOSTER, U. S. Army,

Commanding Department of the South, Hilton Head, S. C.:

GENERAL: There are at present in this city ten surgeons, twenty-one assistant surgeons, one hospital steward, and three chaplains of the U. S. military service, sent here as prisoners of war, whom I desire to discharge and send within your lines. I have no reason to doubt that these persons hold the positions they claim to hold in the U. S. service, and therefore discharge them. But as I am required to account for them, I shall rely upon you to send me an official acknowledgment from the Adjutant-General, or other authorized officer of your Government, that they actually hold the position in the service they claim to hold, and that in default of such proof furnished you will return them to the Confederate States within thirty days as prisoners of war.

Unless otherwise notified by you I will send them at 10 o'clock a. m. on Saturday, the 3rd proximo, to the same point in Charleston Harbor at which the exchange of certain officers was made on the 3rd instant, and have them in position to be received by your boat. I am induced to select them point for the greater convenience of transportation.

On the 24th instant Corpl. G. W. Barnes and Private Thomas Harman, of Company G, Fifty-sixth New York Regiment, while on picket duty at Port Royal Ferry, were captured by my pickets under circumstances which I cannot approve, and I will, therefore, return them at the same time and place with the officers above referred to, without