III. No prisoners of war will be allowed to leave the buildings or grounds in which they are confined except in the cases provided for in paragraph IV of this order, and permission to enjoy limits beyond such grounds, whether based upon the parolees of the prisoners or other reasons, will not be accorded.

IV. Whenever the health of prisoners requires their removal from the places of confinement to hospitals or convalescent camps the removal will be made only on the certificate of the medical officer of the post. The surgeon of the hospital or camp to which such prisoners are removed will, on their recovery, notify the officer from whose charge they were taken, in order that they may be taken back to the place of confinement under guard.

V. Officers having prisoners of war in charge will make monthly reports to the office of the inspector-general of this department of all prisoners whom they may have in charge, and hereafter of those whom they may receive during each month, of all deaths, escapees, an other alterations which may have occurred since the report for the preceding month, giving the names, rank, regiment, and companies of all such prisoners.

VI. No person will be allowed to hold communication with the prisoners except under special permission from the officer in charge, and then only in presence of a commissioned officer. These permissions will not be granted to gratify idle curiosity nor to any but relatives of the prisoners who have business with them.

VII. All letters to and from prisoners must be unsealed, and before delivery to prisoners or forwarding through our lines to the enemy's must be submitted to the officer in charge of his perusal and approval.

VIII. The personal effects of prisoners of war must not be taken from them, except articles which may be used to effect their escape, and din such cases the officer in charge will keep a record thereof and give memorandum receipts to the parties to whom the articles belong, so that they may be restored to them on their being exchanged or otherwise properly released from confinement.

IX. The proper police of quarters of prisoners must be made daily, and all necessary hygienic measures adopted to insure health and reasonable comfort.

X. In the transportation of prisoners of war from places of confinement officers an guards having them in charge will not allow any communication to be held with their prisoners.

XI. the exchange of uniform clothing, dress or undress, by prisoners of war will not be allowed, as by this means the greater number of escapees are effected.

By command of Lieutenant General R. Taylor:

P. ELLIS, JR.,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS C. S. MILITARY PRISON,
Campt Sumter, Andersonville, Ga., November 1, 1864.

Colonel GEORGE C. GIBBS, Commanding Post, Andersonville, Ga.:

Consolidated return for C. S. military prison, Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Ga., for the month of October, 1864.

Prisoners on hand on the 1st of October, 1864:

In camp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,147

In hospital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,071

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