RO. Ould letter October 31, 1863

Richmond, October 31, 1863.
Brig. Gen. S. A. Meredith, Agent of Exchange :
Sir: In the roll of Confederate officers transmitted to me by you some time ago I find the names of three officers who, by the entries, have been already declared exchanged. They are Lieut. Col. Wharton J. Green, captured at Smithsburg, Md., July 5, 1862, and now confined at Johnson's Island; Lieut. H. B. Garnett, of Campbell's battalion, captured in Greene County, Mo., November 3, 1862, and now confined at Norfolk, Va., and Capt. J. W. Johnson, Fourth Missouri, captured in Howard County, Mo., December 29, 1862, and now confined at Johnson's Island. All three of these have been declared exchanged by the agreements between Lieutenant- Colonel Ludlow and myself.
There are many officers besides those on the rolls who are in captivity. They are not all confined in the prisons named in the rolls. You have others. Some of the officers to whom I refer are at Saint Louis, Nashville, Alton, and other places. At some future time I will furnish you with the names of such as have been reported to me. In the meantime will you cause to be prepared lists of such officers as are in confinement at Alton, Saint Louis, and other points?
Of course I only refer to such officers as are not already on the rolls transmitted. If proper inquiries are made, especially at Saint Louis, it will be found that there are also many hundreds of our men who have been declared exchanged by our agreements.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
RO. OULD,
Agent of Exchange.

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55th Congress 3d Session House of Representatives Document No. 312
The War of the Rebellion: A compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
Published under the direction of the Hon. Russell A. Alger, Secretary of War,
By Brig. Gen. Fred C. Ainsworth, Chief of the record and pension office, war department, and Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley.
Series II – Volume VI.
Washington: Government printing office.
1899