In view of the facts here stated we most respectfully ask that at least one-half of the prisoners confined in Salisbury be removed to some other prison.

JNO I. SHAVER,

Mayor.

JAMES E. KERR,

C. A. HENDERSON,

THOS. E. BROWN,

THOS. C. McNEELY,

JOHN A. SNOW,

S. FRANKFORD,

JNO A. HOLT,

W. J. PLUMMER,

Commissioner.

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA,

SURGEON-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Richmond, Va., - -,186-.

Report of the sanitary condition of the C. S. military prisons of Camps Sumter and Lawton, Ga., by Surg. Isaiah H. White.

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The law of Congress creating a hospital fund to provide for the comfort of sick and wounded is completely abrogated by the Commissary Department failing to fill requisitions for funds.

The authority granted is your telegram of September 22, to divide the excess of funds at Andersonville among the new prisoners, has been thwarted by the commissary at that post fail in to supply funds. A large excess of funds at Andersonville will be turned over to the Treasury because the commissary at that post has failed to supply himself with funds to meet requisitions while thousands of sick, both at this post and Andersonville, are in a state of suffering that would touch the heart even of the most callous. Will not the Commissary-General supply the funds even after the monthly statement of hospital fund has been forwarded?

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ISAIAH H. WHITE,

Surgeon, Provisional Army, C. S.

[First indorsement.]

SURGEON-GENERAL'S OFFICE, November 15, 1864.

Respectfully referred for the information of the Commissary-General, and asking what action will be taken by the Commissary Department with regard to this fund.

S. P. MOORE,

Surgeon-General C. S. Army.

[Second indorsement.]

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL, November 18, 1864.

The Treasury of the Confederate States has not supplied this Bureau; $35,000,000 of requisitions are now unfilled. The commissaries in Georgia have not been able, therefore, to provide money. This Bureau cannot remedy the consequences of inability on the Treasury. There are other consequences of this, viz, general indebtedness,