©. T. Christensen to N. B. Buford, February 8, 1865

New Orleans, La., February 8, 1865.

Brig. Gen. N. B. BUFORD, Commanding District of Eastern Arkansas, Helena, Ark. : GENERAL: I am directed by the major-general commanding to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 3d instant in relation to Lieutenant Casteel and other rebel prisoners of war recently confined at your post and now forwarded to Fort Monroe, as requested by the Commissary-General of Prisoners. The exchange of these prisoners was specially arranged by General Grant, and they will therefore be sent from here to Fort Monroe by first opportunity. Your letter will be sent to the Commissary-General of Prisoners.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

©. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant- General.

JOINT RESOLUTION to amend a joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution on the

subject of retaliation,” approved May 1, 1865. *

Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That

the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh sections of the above-recited joint

resolution be, aud the same are hereby, repealed, and that the second

section be so amended as to omit therefrom the following words, to wit,