Colonel C. J. Dickerson, Tenth Michigan Volunteers; Lieutenant Colonel W. E. McMackin, Twenty-first Illinois Volunteers; Lieutenant Colonel J. F. Fellows, Seventeenth Massachusetts Volunteers; Lieutenant Colonel W. C. Maxwell, One hundred and third Pennsylvania Volunteers; Lieutenant Colonel A. W. Taylor, One hundred and first Pennsylvania Volunteers; Lieutenant Colonel C. B. Baldwin, First Massachusetts Volunteers; Lieutenant Colonel A. F. Rodgers, Eightieth Illinois Volunteers; Lieutenant Colonel F. W. Swift, Seventeenth Michigan Volunteers; Lieutenant Colonel W. R. Cook, Second East Tennessee Cavalry; Lieutenant Colonel J. D. Mayhew, Eighth Kentucky Volunteers; Lieutenant Colonel J. J. Polsley, Seventh West Virginia Cavalry; Lieutenant Colonel G. A. Frambes, Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteers; Lieutenant Colonel J. W. Stewart, Second Indiana Cavalry; Lieutenant Colonel G. C. Joslin, Fifteenth Massachusetts Volunteers; Major D. A. Carpenter, Second East Tennessee Volunteers; Major W. T. Baker, Tenth Maine Volunteers [sic]; Major J. H. Johnson, Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry; Major C. H. Beeres, Sixteenth Illinois Cavalry; Major W. Crandall, Eighty-fifth New York Volunteers; Major J. E. Clark, Fifth Michigan Cavalry; Major E. N. Bates, Eightieth Illinois Volunteers; Major H. D. Grant, Fourth Michigan Cavalry; Major J. Hall, First Vermont Cavalry; Colonel Henry M. Hoyt, Fifty-second Pennsylvania Volunteers; Captain W. H. H. Robins, Company I, Second East Tennessee Volunteers; First Lieutenant Philip C. Rodgers, Company H, Thirty-ninth New York Volunteers; Private Joshua Wilson, Company B, Fifty-eighth Indiana Volunteers.

The officers and enlisted men whose exchange is announced above will proceed to join their respective regiments and commands at the expiration of the leaves of absence which may have been given.

By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, September 12, 1864.

Honorable GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy:

SIR: I am instructed by the Secretary of War to inform you that directions have been given to the Commissary-General of Prisoners for the removal of all officers, seamen, and marines of the rebel Navy to Fort Warren, as requested in your letter of the 9th instant.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

C. A. DANA,

Assistant Secretary of War.

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, September 12, 1864.

EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS OF WAR.

The following letter from Major-General Butler, commissioner of exchange, indicates the present condition of the subject of exchanges of prisoners of war. *

Official:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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* See Butler to Ould, August [27], 1864, p. 687.

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