O. O. Poppleton to and Acting Adjutant, 111th U. N. Colored Infantry, January 5, 1865

HEADQUARTERS 111TH U.S. COLORED INFANTRY,

Nashville, Tenn., January 5, 1865.

SIR: I have the honor to inform you that I have in my possession a copy of the Mobile Advertiser and Register of October, 1864, which contains a printed order from D. H. Maury, major-general, O. S. Army, giving the names of about 570 of our colored soldiers who belong to the One hundred and sixth, One hundred and tenth, and One hundred and eleventh U. S. Colored Infantry Regiments, and notifying the former owners of said soldiers that they were at that time employed by the engineer department at Mobile, Ala., and for the owners to report and receive the pay due for the soldiers’ services. It you desire me to send Me the paper which contains. the order, or a copy of the order, 1 will do so.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Lieutenant and Acting Adjutant, 111th U. N. Colored Infantry.

[Indorsement.]

Respectfully forwarded to Major-General Hitchcock, commissioner of

exchange of prisoners.

Major-General.

CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.—UNION AND CONFEDERATE.