HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
OFFICE OF EXCHANGE,

New Orleans, September 30, 1864.

Major JAMES R. CURELL, Agent, &c.:

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 22nd instant, with its inclosures addressed to Major Szymanski, which I have already forwarded to him.

In answer to your proposition to exchange for the prisoners captured in fort Morgan, I have to say that under existing orders no exchanges beyond those already agreed upon can for the present be made.

The letter for Mrs. Curell, inclosed by you, I have caused to be delivered.

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

CHAS. C. DWIGHT,

Colonel, &c., Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS POST,
Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill., September 30, 1864.

Colonel WILLIAM HOFFMAN,

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

COLONEL: I have the honor to respectfully report that on the evening of September 27, 1864, an attack was made on the fence and guard line surrounding the prison square at about 8 o'clock by the following named prisoners of war - Joseph E. Adams, Company E, Third Georgia Cavalry; Thomas C. Cunningham, Company C, Third Confederate Cavalry; James A. Cox, Company H, Fourth Alabama Cavalry; A. H. Green, Company A, Fourth Alabama Cavalry; W. R. Lay, Company K, Fourth Alabama Cavalry; Robert B. Landman, Company G, Tenth Kentucky Infantry; Lewis H. Moore, Company D, Seventh Florida Infantry; J. W. Plant, Second Arkansas Battery; William Sparkman, Company K, Fourth Florida Infantry; Isom Stone, Company A, Tenth Kentucky Infantry; Berry Sexton, Company B, Tenth Kentucky Infantry; John E. Young, Company D, First Kentucky Cavalry - to make their escape; that Private Lewis H. Moore, Seventh Florida Infantry, was shot through the face during the attack and will probably die. the guard secured the balance of the party, who have been placed in irons by way of punishment.

I have the honor to be, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

B. J. SWEET,

Colonel, Commanding Post.

[First indorsement.]

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Washington, D. C., October 7, 1864.

Respectfully submitted to the Secretary of War for his information.

W. HOFFMAN,

Colonel Third Infantry and Commissary-General of Prisoners.

[Second indorsement.]

WAR DEPARTMENT, October 12, 1864.

Referred to Major-General Hitchcock, commissioner for exchange, for his information.

By order of the Secretary of War:

C. A. DANA,

Assistant Secretary of War.

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