R. O. Ould to Joan E. Mulford, January 18, 1865

Lieut. Col. Joan E. MULFORD, Assistant Agent of Exchange:

SIR: As we have agreed to relieve from close confinement or irons, as the case may be, and deliver all prisoners heretofore or now so held on either side, I beg leave to call your attention to the cases which have been brought to the notice of the Confederate authorities.

Your letter of the 10th of September last gave only a very partial list of the Confederate soldiers who were so held. In addition to those named therein are the following, viz:

Private George P. Simms, Private W. S. Burgess, Private John Marr, Private Thomas M. Campbell, Capt. D. G. Douglas, Captain Davis, Captain Smith, Captain Miller, and Lieut. A. C. Smith, Nineteenth Tennessee, at Jobnson’s Island; Capt. James P. Brown, Tennessee eavalry; First Lieut. R. J. Brailsford, First Texas Legion; First Lieut. R. H. C. Bailey, Foster’s cavalry, and First Lieut. A. W. Dozier, Sixth South Carolina Cavalry, at Fort Delaware.

The last four named officers were reported to me by General Butler on the 18th of July last as being “”in cells.”

Major Mills and Lieutenant Davis, at Fort Delaware; Private Philip Trammell, Private John H. Barnes, Private J. R. H. kmbert, Private Braxton Lyon, Private Samuel B. Hearn, Private Samuel Cooper, Private C. McDonnell, and Private Ro. Harrover, Albany penitentiary ; Private Jacob S. Dyer, Private Daniel H. Wherret, Second Kentucky Cavalry; Private Albert W. Cushman, Col. John H. Winston, and tenant Mosely, and Lieutenant Bridges, Nashville; Captain Compton, Fort McHenry; Private John R. Guthwright, Fourth Kentucky Cavalry, Cincinnati; Surg. D. D. Carter, Fort Lafayette; Captain Glover and three privates, Chattanooga; Lieut. John H. Yerby, Lieutenant Casteel, Lieutenant Thomas, Private Thomas [A.] Quarles, Private Thomas Stoneham, and Private John [G. Smith, Helena jail; Capt. J. B. Castleman, Camp Morton; Capt. Gustave A. Huwald and Captain Reynolds, Sixty-fourth North Carolina (in iron cage), Knoxville; Lieut. ©. D. Burbridge, Gratiot Street Prison, Saint Louis; Private A. A. Williams, Maryland cavalry, and Private Hiram P. Richardson, Maryland cavalry, Fort Warren; Corpl. F. M. Armstrong, Sixteenth Missouri, Saint Louis; Lieutenant Gandy and Private George Dusky, Wheeling; Col. J. D. Morris and Maj. T. Steele, Lexingto#. >

All of the above-named parties are either in close confinement or in irons. It may be that some of them are not now at the place indicated. You may, however, rest assured that they have been there at some time, and if transferred you can readily find out where they are. Lam quite confident you will find quite a number in irons or close confinement at Alton, at Saint Louis, and in Tennessee and Kentucky.

I also understand there are 100 of Col. Adam R. Johnson’s men and some 25 of Morgan’s, embracing three or four officers who are now held, at Louisville not as prisoners of war.

Let me again earnestly commend this whole subjectto your attention. Tf we can succeed in relieving all prisoners of war, on both sides, from a cruel confinement, we will have accomplished a good deal in the cause of humanity. I am ready to deliver all whom we have in close confinement or in irons at any moment.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,