MACON, September 10, 1864.

General S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General:

If General McLaws is obliged to detain the troops from this post the movement of prisoners must necessary cease.

J. H. WINDER,

Brigadier-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 215.
Richmond, September 10, 1864.

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III. Brigadier General W. M. Gardner, Provisional Army, C. S., will appoint a suitable commissioner to proceed to Salisbury, N. C., to examine prisoners and deserted in confinement, and upon his report to order the discharged, removal, or detention of such as may be entitled to it under the report, and to direct the removal of prisoners under General Orders, Numbers 65, current series, if any be found entitled to claim the benefit of said order.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Richmond, Va., September 10, 1864.

Lieutenant-Colonel CHANDLER:

(Care Lieutenant-Colonel Harvie, assistant inspector-general,

Hood's Army of Tennessee.)

The following extract from your report of inspection of prisons at Andersonville, Ga., was referred to the Commissary-General for his information and action:

Captain J. W. Armstrong, assistant commissary of subsistence, left the post shortly after my arrival on sick-leave, locking up nearly all his books and papers. I was consequently unable to make a satisfactory examination into his affairs. Enough entirely incompetent for the discharge of the duties of his position, and should at once be removed.

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The Commissary-General returned the paper with the request that information may be furnished that Bureau which Colonel Chandler states to have been elicited by him and upon which he bases his opinion that Captain Armstrong, assistant commissary of subsistence, is incompetent. Without such information this Bureau can take no action with the view of getting rid of the "inefficient officer. "

By direction of the Adjutant-General you will as soon as practicable, furnish this office with an additional report respecting the officer mentioned, giving the necessary information request by the Commissary-General.

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

C. McRAE SELPH,

Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General.