The Confederate authorities are entirely willing that your prisoners confined here shall, in addition to Government or State supplies, receive any contributions sent by private individuals, either North or South, and whatever sums of money may be sent to them to be expended in accordance with humane and proper prison regulations. Will your Government not agree to the same? I will thank you for an early reply.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

RO. OULD,

Agent of Exchange.

[Indorsement.]

OFFICE U. S. ASSISTANT AGENT FOR EXCHANGE,

Fort Monroe, Va., January 6, 1865.

Respectfully forwarded to Major General E. A. Hitchcock, commissioner for exchange of prisoners, Washington, D. C.

JNO E. MULFORD,

Lieutenant-Colonel and U. S. Assistant Agent of Exchange.

CAMP LAWTON, November 25, 1864.

General S. COOPER:

The prisoners all left this post. Captain D. W. Vowless left here in charge of public business. Will I be permitted to choose my headquarters? The telegraph operator will leave here with his battery for now post. I will await instructions at Augusta. Please let me hear soon.

JNO H. WINDER,

Brigadier-General.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, Washington, November 26, 1864.

SIR: Mr. Edward A. Pollard, now in Brooklyn, has been directed to proceed to Fort Monroe and report to the senior military officer in command there as a paroled prisoners, and with the view of being exchanged.

Very respectfully, &c.,

GIDEON WELLES,

Secretary of the Navy.

SURGEON-GENERAL'S OFFICE, November 26, 1864.

Surg. J. SIMPSON, U. S. Army,

Medical Director, Baltimore, Md.:

Make arrangements with Surgeon Vanderkieft to transfer those able to travel to Baltimore and for the care and comfort of 6,000 exchanged prisoners now arriving at Annapolis, most of them sick.

JOS. K. BARRACKS,

Surgeon-General.

BALTIMORE, November 26, 1864.

Brigadier General J. K. BARNES, Surgeon-General U. S. Army:

Telegram received. Surgeon Vanderkieft reports arrival of first installment of exchanged prisoners. Condition indescribable. Hos-