Deponent also further says the he knows of numbers of them having been obliged to trade their clothes and shoes with the Confederate soldiers for food, owing to an insufficiency being furnished them.

SAM. MILLER.

Sworn and subscribed to before me this 12th day of October, 1864.

JOHN I. DAVENPORT,

Lieutenant, Aide-de-Camp, and Assistant Provost-Marshal.

[Inclosure No. 2.]

HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA, ARMY OF THE JAMES, In the Field, October 12, 1864.

Samuel Hutchins, of the Thirty-eight North Carolina Regiment, lately put into the Virginia local reserves, and stationed at Fort Gilmer, on oath deposes and says the morning to Fort Gilmer on the night of Thursday, the 6th of October, he found about 100 negroes, colored soldiers, clad in the uniform of the United States, captured in the recent engagement, at work in the trenches at and near Fort Gilmer.

Deponent further says that he left the Confederate lines on the night of the 11th instant, and that when he left the trenches they were still at work.

SAMUEL (his x mark) HUTCHINS.

Sworn to and subscribed to by making his mark in my presence and before me this 12th day of October, 1864.

JOHN I. DAVENPORT,
Lieutenant, Aide-de-Camp, and Assistant Provost-Marshal.

[Inclosure No. 3.

HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA, ARMY OF THE JAMES, In the Field, October 12, 1864.

Chapman Dinking, of Yadkin County, N. C., member of the Thirty-eight North Carolina Regiment, put into the Virginia local reserves, lately stationed at Fort Gilmer, on oath deposes and says that coming to Fort Gilmer on the night of Thursday, the 6th of October, he found 110 colored soldiers in the uniform of the United States, captured in the recent engagements, at work in the trenches at Fort Gilmer, without sufficient food, so that they were exchanging their clothes for food with the Confederate soldiers.

Deponent further says that he left the Confederate lines on the night of the 11th, and that when he left the trenches they were still at work.

CHAPMAN DINKING.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12th day of October, 1864.

JOHN I. DAVENPORT,
Lieutenant, Aide-de-Camp, and Assistant Provost-Marshal.

[Inclosure No. 4.]

HDQRS. DEPT. OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA, ARMY OF THE JAMES, October 12, 1864.

James F. Knight, of Company F, Fifty-ninth Virginia Regiment, put into the First Regiment Virginia Reserves, being duly worn, deposes