...of the alleged execution, and promising that General Lee should be duly informed thereof; And whereas, on the 26th of November last, 1862, another letter was addressed, under my instructions, by Robert Ould , Confederate agent for the exchange of prisoners, under the cartel between the two governments, to Lieut.-Col. W. H. Ludlow, agent of the United States under said cartel, informing him that the expla...