Executive Mansion,

Washington City,

January 10th, 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.
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.