Department of State, Office of War and Marine–Section first., July 6, 1866

Department of State, Office of War and Marine–Section first.

I answered your communication in reference to the exchange of prisoners captured at Santa Isabel, dated the 8th of May, on the 31st of that month, enclosing the copy of a letter from Simon Blanco, and one from the commander of the first infantry division of the expeditionary army; and in my answer I gave you the terms of exchange. Your note of the 17th of June last reached me to-day. It is in relation to the same subject, and contains copies of your letter to General Douay, and his answer, containing formal proposals for exchange of prisoners. In view of what has been said, the President of the republic intrusts the exchange of the French prisoners of the expeditionary corps, taken at Santa Isabel, to your care, giving for them the chiefs, officers, and soldiers mentioned by General Douay in his communication of the 14th of June last.

This communication is copied for the information of the general-in-chief of the army corps of the north.