O, Ax DANA to Charles S. Hanson, Thirty-seventh Kentucky Regiment, U. S, January 31, 1865

Washington, D. C., January 31, 1865.

General H. E. PAINE, U.S. Volunteers:

GENERAL: I will thank you to inform me with as little delay as possible how soon the clothing will be ready to forward to rebel prisoners of war. Pressing demands are continually received from some of the prisoners representing the want of clothing by a portion of the prisoners. I am holding them for the present in hopes the cotton will furnish all that is absolutely necessary.

Respectfully, yours, H. W. WESSELLS, Commissary-General of Prisoners.

NEW YORK, January 31, 1865. Brig. Gen. H. W. WESSELLS, Washington, D. 0.: General Beall will probably be ready to commence the shipment of supplies within two or three days. H. E. PAINE.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, January 31, 1865. Maj. Gen. A. E. BURNSIDE:

GENERAL: I inclose a copy of a statement of Charles W. Helm, “major, C. S. Army,” and of a certificate of J. T. Boyle, late brigadiergeneral of volunteers, in regard to charges against Col. Charles S. Hanson, who is to be tried by the rebel authorities, and beg to request that you will affix thereto a certificate exonerating Colonel Hanson.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

O, Ax DANA

Assistant Secretary of War.

[Inclosure No. 1.]

Army, is now a prisoner, wounded, in the College Hospital, Lynchburg,

Va. He was captured at Saltville, Va., about the 1st of October, 1864.

Charges have been preferred against him by Lieutenant-Colonel Alston,

C. S. Army, for cruelty to Confederate prisoners and violation of parole.