Executive Mansion,

Washington City,

January 15th, 1864

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. It 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