...parties had purchased the passes from Col. French, some paying as high as 1,000 in gold for them. I was employed as chief detective, at that time, of a separate department, under the control of Col. S. H. Stafford , Deputy Provost Marshal, who reported to Gen. Butler. Stafford also knows of these goods going across the lines to the rebels; but, on our finding Cols. Butler and French interested, our efforts to...