Headquarters, Memphis, January 15, 1862.
Col. W. W. Mackall, Assistant Adjutant-General
Colonel: I have the honor to report that I have secured the building on Beal street formerly occupied as a botanico-medical college at a rent of $ 100 per month and converted the same into a prison for Belmont Federal prisoners confined at this post. I have had the prisoners moved to the above location where they are guarded by Capt. C. Sherwin's detachment recruits, aggregate forty men. I have the honor also to report that the prisoner Owens and one other escaped from the former prison. They were soon afterwards captured and for their attempted escape have been since kept in irons.
I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
John Adams
Captain, C. S. Army, Commanding.
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