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Major General Hitchcock, Commissioner of Exchanges, is authorized and directed to offer Brigadier-General Trimble now a
prisoner of war in Fort McHenry, in exchange for Major White, who is held as a prisoner at Richmond. He is also directed to send forward the offer of exchange by Henry M. Warfield, Esq. of Baltimore, under a flag of truce, and give him a pass to City Point.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
[1] John Heise Catalog 2477, No. 28. ``Major White'' was probably Major Harry White of the Sixty-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry and a Republican senator in the Pennsylvania legislature. See Lincoln to Cameron, October 17, 1863, supra. The exchange seems to have been refused by the Confederates, for White was not exchanged until September 29, 1864, and General Isaac R. Trimble remained a prisoner of war until April, 1865.