The Weekly Register (Lynchburg, Virginia) — May 16, 1864
We are gratified in being able to make the happy announcement that a regular system for a general exchange of prisoners is agreed upon, and will be immediately inaugurated.
Commissioner Ould returned on the 4th instant from Fortress Monroe, at which point he has been under a flag of truce, two or three days past, on business connected with his department, the result of which, is the resumption of the cartel, with the prospect under its provisions, of an immediate exchange of all the prisoners on both sides.
We congratulate the people of the Confederacy on the glad tidings of this announcement; but much more so our prisoners themselves, who have suffered so terribly, endured so heroically, and who deserve the generous and joyous reception we trust they will receive on their return, in the way of private greetings, as well as of popular demonstration.