SEPTEMBER 9, 1864.

General BRAGG, Richmond:

General Sherman agrees to exchange all prisoners on hand-some 1,500 or 2,000.

[J. B. HOOD.]

SEPTEMBER 9, 1864.

Lieutenant-General STEWART, Commanding Corps:

General Hood desires that you will cause inquiry to be made for any troops in your command who were of the Vicksburg captures who have not yet been exchanged. If any, please state number and rank of officers. The information is desired for Judge Ould.

[A. P. MASON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.]

SEPTEMBER 10, 1864.

Colonel WILLIAM HOFFMAN,

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

Please have sent to me for special exchange Lieutenant George Lemmon, aide-de-camp to General Archer, Confederate forces, now at Johnson's Island.

Lieutenant Lemon afforded much kindness to Union prisoners in Richmond.

BENJ. F. BUTLER,

Major-General and Commissioner for Exchange.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA,
In the Field, September 10, 1864.

Honorable ROBERT OULD:

SIR: Will you please inform me if William S. Collins, Company B, Twenty-eight Massachusetts Volunteers, is a prisoners in the hands of your authorities; and if so, his whereabouts and present condition?

I have the honor to be, your obedient servant, &c.,

BENJ. F. BUTLER,

Major-General and Commissioner for Exchange.

[SEPTEMBER 10, 1864,-For Jones to Foster, in relation to exchange of non-combatants, &c., see Series I, Vol. XXXV, Part II, p. 279.]

[SEPTEMBER 10, 1864. -For Jones to Foster (two letters), relating to Pike and Gray, held by the Confederate as spies, and to certain Confederate officers confined in a stockade on Morris Island, and reporting condition of Union prisoners in Charleston, &c., see Series I, Vol. XXXV, Part II, pp. 278, 279.]

[SEPTEMBER 10, 1864. -For Woodford to Foster, reporting exchange of prisoners at Fort Royal Ferry, &c., see Series I, Vol. XXXV, Part II, p. 280.]