direction. What number remains at Andersonville? It seems more immediately in danger.

J. A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War.

CAMP LAWTON, November 19, 1864.

Honorable JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War:

Fifteen hundred prisoners at Andersonville and 10,000 here. Am ordered by General Hardee to remove the prisoners to Savannah for the present, and establish prison on the Gulf Railroad at Waresborough, Ware County, Ga.

JOHN H. WINDER,

Brigadier-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, NO. 275.
Richmond, November 19, 1864.

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XVI. Brigadier General W. M. Gardner will proceed without delay to Columbia, S. C., and make an examination of the country with a view to the selection of the most suitable point for the location of a camp of prisoners of war.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

Lieutenant Colonel H. L. Clay, assistant adjutant-general, respecting negroes confined at Salisbury. *

[Indorsement.]

NOVEMBER 19, 1864.

Returned to General Gardner.

I do not understand this as an order to send these parties off by flag of truce, but simply that they are subject to be sent when a due occasion offers. If I am wrong I can be corrected. If I wait awhile I can make good use of them. Please let me have your views.

[RO. OULD.]

KNOXVILLE, November 20, 1864.

Major-General SCHOFIELD:

Have just received letter from rebel General Vaughn saying he is authorized by his Secretary of War to meet me or other agents to agree upon terms for exchange of non-combatants of East Tennessee held by either Government. I am authorized by Secretary of War to complete arrangements of exchange already commenced. Shall I meet him?

S. P. CARTER,

Brigadier-General and Provost-Marshal-General, East Tennessee.

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*Brought from Pennsylvania by C. S. Army.

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