[Indorsement.]

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE EAST,
December 29, 1864.

Respectfully returned.

The general commanding the department sees no objection to the wording of the sign proposed by Brigadier-General Beall.

By command of Major-General Dix:

M. T. McMAHON,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DEPARTMENT,

Richmond, Va., December 29, 1864.

Brigadier General WILLIAM M. GARDNER:

GENERAL: You will substitute for Captain Boice, Second [Third] New Jersey Cavalry (now held in close confinement in retaliation for Lieutenant Gandy, C. S. Army, a prisoner in Wheeling, Va.), Captain Edwin [E.] Bedee, Twelfth new Hampshire Volunteers.

By order of the Secretary of War:

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Assistant Secretary of War.

RICHMOND, December 29, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel JOHN E. MULFORD, Assistant Agent of Exchange:

SIR: Charles E. Marshall, son of General Humphrey Marshall, is a prisoner in the hands of the Federal authorities, and is held, I believe, somewhere in Kentucky. Will you please inform me whether he is held as an ordinary prisoner of war?

Respectfully your obedient servant,

RO. OULD,

Agent of Exchange.

HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,
City Point, Va., December 30, 1864.

Honorable E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War:

I have the honor to transmit herewith copies of correspondence between Judge Ould and myself upon the matter of supplying blankets to our prisoners at and in the vicinity of Richmond; also letters relating to the general supplying of prisoners upon both sides, and the shipment of Confederate cotton from Mobile. *

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

U. S. GRANT,

Lieutenant-General.

NEW YORK, December 30, 1864.

Major General H. W. HALLECK, Chief of Staff;

GENERAL: I have the honor to inclose a letter from General Beall to Colonel Ould of this date.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

H. E. PAINE,

Brigadier-General.

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*See Grant to Ould, December 24; Ould to Grant, December 27 (three); Grant to Ould, December 28 (three); Special Orders, Numbers 159, December 28; Rawlins to Butler, December 28, pp. 1264, 1281, 1289, 1290, 1291.

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