GENERAL ORDERS, No. 255. WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, Washington, September 12, 1864. The following named officers and enlisted men of the United States Army, having been duly exchanged as Prisoners of War, by an agree- ment entered into between Major-General J. G. Foster, Command- ing Department of the South, and General S. Jones, Commanding the City of Charleston, are hereby declared so exchanged : Brigadier-General H. W. Wessels, U. S. Volunteers. Brigadier-General T. Seymour, U. S. Volunteers. Brigadier-General B. P. Scammon, IT. S. Volunteers. Brigadier-General C. A. Heckman, IT. S. Volunteers. Brigadier-General A. Shaler, U. S. Volunteers. Colonel H. C. Lee, 27th Massachusetts Volunteers. Colonel R. White, 53d Pennsylvania Volunteers. Colonel W. Harrisman, 11th New Hampshire Volunteers. Colonel E. Fadella, 85th New York Volunteers. Colonel H. L. Brown, 145th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Colonel T. F. Lehman, 103d Pennsylvania Volunteers. Colonel E. L. Dana, 143d Pennsylvania Volunteers. Colonel J. S. Grover, 7th Illinois Volunteers. Colonel 0. H. LeGrange, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry. Colonel H. C. Bolinger, 7th Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserve Vol- unteer Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel W. P. Lacella, 9th Indiana Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel D. Miles, 79th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel I. R. Hawkins, 7th Tennessee Cavalry. Lieutenant-Colonel E. Olcutt, 121st New York Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel J. P. Spofford, 97th New York Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel S. Moffitt, 96th New York Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel T. H. Higinbotliam, 65th New York Volun- teers. Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Glenn, 89th Ohio Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Burnham, 16th Connecticut Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Bartholomew, 27th Massachusetts Vol- unteers. Lieutenant-Colonel H. B. Hunter, 123d Ohio Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel E. L. Hayes, 100th Ohio Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel C. J. Dickinson, 10th Michigan Volunteers. Lieutenant. Colonel W. E. McMaliin, 21st Illinois Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel J. F. Fellows, 17th Massachusetts Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel W. C. Maxwell, 103d Pennsylvania Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel A. W. Taylor, 101st Pennsylvania Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel C. B. Baldwin, 1st Maine Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel A. F. Rodgers, 80th Illinois Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. Swift, 17th Michigan Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel W. R. Cook, 2d East Tennessee Cavalry. Lieutenant-Colonel J. D. Mayhew, 8th Kentucky Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel J. J. Polsley, 7th "West Virginia Cavalry. Lieutenant-Colonel G. A. Fambre, 59th Ohio Volunteers. Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Stewart, 2d Indiana Cavalry. Lieutenant-Colonel G. C. Joslin, 15th Massachusetts Volunteers. Major D. A. Carpenter, 2d East Tennessee Volunteers. Major W. T. Baker, 10th Maine Volunteers. Major J. H. Johnson, 11th Tennessee Cavalry. Major C. IT. Beeves, 16th Illinois Cavalry. Major W. Crandall, 85th New York Volunteers. Major .1. E. Clark, 5th Michigan Cavalry. Major E. M. Bates, 80th Illinois Volunteers. Major II. Grant, 4th Michigan Cavalry, Major J. Hall, 1st Vermont Cavalry. Colonel Heni'y M. Hoyt, 52d Pennsylvania Volunteers. Captain W. H. II. Robbins, Company “I,” 2d East Tennessee V olunteers. 1st Lieutenant Philip Rodgers, Company “ II,’’ 39th New York Volunteers. Private Joshua Wilson, Company^4 B,” 58thIndiana Volunteers. The officersand enlisted men whose exchange is announced above, will proceed to join their respective regiments and commands at the expiration of the leaves of absence which may have been given. order of the Secretary of War : E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General. Official : Assistant Adjutant General.