has been due to the difficulty experienced by the surgeons in identifying the men, many of whom were hardly able to speak.

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

ADRIAN R. ROOT,

Colonel, Commanding Post, &c.

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
Red River Landing, September 13, 1864.

Major IG. SZYMANSKI, C. S. Army, &c.:

The quartermaster's stores and medicines this day turned over by me to you, and which you have kindly consented to cause to be applied to the use of our prisoners in your hands, are intended to be distributed according to the discretion of whatever one of our officers (now prisoners) whom you may select among those prisoners who will remain in Texas after the completion of the exchange now pending between us.

Whether any of the goods shall be sent to other prisons than Tyler must depend upon the discretion of the officers charged with the distribution, as well as upon your facilities of transportation.

I am, major, your obedient servant,

CHAS. C. DWIGHT,

Colonel and Commissioner, &c.

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT,

Richmond, Va., September 13, 1864.

General J. H. WINDER, Andersonville, via Macon, Ga.:

Number of prisoners sent to Charleston is sufficient. Send no more there, but as many as possible to Millen. Will removal of prisoners place at command of Postmaster-General telegraph wire heretofore called for and used by you?

J. A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War.

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT,

Richmond, Va., September 13, 1864.

General SAMUEL JONES, Charleston, S. C.:

I have telegraphed General James Chestnut to ascertain if he can receive and guard prisoners you propose to send, with aid of reserves from you, as suggested.

J. A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War.

CHARLESTON, September 13, 1864.

General BRAGG.

Many Yankee prisoners now here profess to be highly indignant with their Government for not exchanging them, especially since the report that it will exchange those whose terms have expired, and they express an earnest desire to take the oath of allegiance, and many of them to join our army if we will permit them. Can anything be done in that way?

SAM. JONES,

Major-General.