EXPEDITIONARY CORPS OF MEXICO, FIRST DIVISION OF INFANTRY, HEADQUARTERS—NUMBER 1257., June 14, 1866.

EXPEDITIONARY CORPS OF MEXICO, FIRST DIVISION OF INFANTRY, HEADQUARTERS—NUMBER 1257.

General: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th instant from Monclova. Accept my thanks for forwarding the two hundred dollars intended for Montier and his captive companions. I hope you will not consider me importunate if I ask you to remit two hundred dollars more, in exchange on Monclova, to the same destination.

I do not wonder, general, that you have not the authority to effect the exchange of our prisoners, tor even I am not allowed that power; but my great desire to free my prisoners induces me to write you this letter, knowing you will try to effect an exchange.

I enclose a list of the names of thirty-one Mexican officers confined in Puebla, and one hundred and four Mexicans, six of them officers, taken from Cortinas, now in Vera Cruz. I think the marshal would consent to exchange these prisoners for the French taken at Santa Isabel on the 1st of March, and at Parral on the 13th of August last, and for some Mexican officers lately captured in Chihuahua by Terrazas. I do not know if Montier and his companions in captivity are allowed to communicate with their friends; if they are not, I beg you to permit them to do so. I see no impropriety in it, if the letters are first sent to you unsealed.

You see, general, I do not hesitate to appeal to your feelings of humanity and courtesy in effecting the proposed exchange of prisoners.

Accept my thanks in advance, with the assurances of my high consideration.

F. DOUAY, General of Division, Commanding 1st Infantry Division, Expeditionary Corps.

General Viezca, Monclova.

Monclova, June 17, 1866.

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