[Inclosure Numbers 2.]

Number of deaths (from smallpox) of prisoners of war in hospitals at Fort Delaware, Del., in the years 1863 and 1864.

1863.

August. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

September. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

October. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

November. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

December. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

1864.

January. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

February. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

March. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

April. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

May. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

June. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

July. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

August. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

September. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

October. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

November. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

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Total. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

This is included in report of total deaths.

A. SCHOEPF,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS POST, C. S. MILITARY PRISON,
Salisbury, N. C., December 14, 1864.

Brigadier General J. H. WINDER,

Commissary-General of Prisoners, Salisbury, N. C.:

GENERAL: In accordance with your verbal instructions of yesterday I have the honor respectfully to submit the following report of the average number of prisoners daily, and the average number of deaths among the Federal prisoners of war confined at this post, from the 12th of October, 1864, to the 12th of December, 1864, sixty days:

Daily average of prisoners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,200

Daily average of deaths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Percentage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4/41

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. A. FUQUA,

Captain and Assistant Commandant of Post.

[First indorsement.]

SALISBURY, N. C., December 15, 1864.

Respectfully referred to Adjutant and Inspector General.

JNO H. WINDER,

Brigadier-General.

[Second indorsement.]

ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,

December 29, 1864.

Respectfully submitted to the Secretary of War.

H. L. CLAY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Third indorsement.]

JANUARY 1, 1864.

Noted; file.

J. A. S.,

Secretary of War.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Montgomery, December 14, 1864.

His Excellency President DAVIS:

DEAR SIR: The Legislature of this State, which has just adjourned has passed an act requiring the Governor to supply the Alabama