W. Hoffman to CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.—UNION AND CONFEDERATE. 229, February 15, 1865

Washington, D. C., February 15, 1865.

Commanding Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, La.: GENERAL: I have the honor to inform you that 1 have to-day, by

direction of the Secretary of War, ordered the rebel officers named on the accompanying list* to be forwarded to Colonel Dwight, assistant agent for exchange at New Orleans. They have not heretofore been sent to you, because, as you will notice, the places of capture are not such as are covered by your cartel of July 28,1864. We have no Capt. Thomas Bartlette, but there is a Capt. T. J. Bartlett, captured in Mississippi. He may be the person sought, and I therefore send him to you. We have no record of Edward Bisart nor T. L. Moore. There is a Capt. W. F. Moore, Price’s staff, captured in Arkansas July 22, 1863, and a Capt. Charles L. Moore, Company C, Fifteenth Arkansas, captured in Monroe County, Ark., February 2, 1864, at Johnson’s Island, neither of whom seem to be the officer called for.

I am, general,

very respectfully, your obedient servant,

“Omitted; embraced in Hoffman to Hill, next, post.

CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.—UNION AND CONFEDERATE.