W. S. Winder to Commissary-General of Prisoners, January 10, 1865

January 10, 1865.

January 10, 1865. Respectfully furnished to the Commissary-General of Prisoners in explanation of the telegram sent eee in reply to the telegraphic inquiry of what prisoners (officers) are in close confinement and if any are in irons. A. A. GIBSON, Major, Third Artillery, Commanding.

a Through this prisoner the plot to escape was made known. He is in confinement with the others at his own request to avoid suspicion.

Hpers. O. S. MIL. PRISONS EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Columbia, S. C., January 10, 1865. Col. G. C. GIBBS, Commanding, &c., Andersonville, Ga. :

COLONEL: The general commanding directs me to say that he has been informed that some prisoners from your post have been paroled and permitted to work at Oglethorpe, Ga. If this is so, you will order them in immediately. In future paroled prisoners will not be allowed to leave the post for work unless by special order from these headquarters.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Assistant Adjutant- General.

[JANUARY 11, 1865.—For proceedings of military commission in the

case of George St. Leger Grenfel et al., tried for conspiracy to release

rebel prisoners in Camp Douglas, at Chicago, and then buru said city,

see Executive Document No. 50, House of Representatives, Thirty-ninth

Congress, second session. :

HDQRSs. ©. S. MIL. PRISONS EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI,