Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Secretary Stanton” in chapter 16, page 212 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies:

... the policy of the United States government did not seem, at that time, to encourage hope of speedy exchange. It was determined, however, to make an effort to obtain one, by personal application to Secretary Stanton . Accordingly, having selected Major McAlexander of Alabama, a prisoner of war confined at Fort Warren, and having arranged with him a plan of proceeding, Major Revere applied to the War Department ...
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