INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, DIST. OF WESTERN LOUISIANA,

In the Field, May 24, 1864.

Colonel C. C. DWIGHT,

Acting Assistant Inspector-General, Commissioner, etc.:

COLONEL: Your communication of 22nd reached me only to-day. I regret that it did not come to hand in time to enable me to meet you at the time and place indicated.

It will give me great pleasure to meet you at Red Landing on the 29th instant. Should any delay occur in the receipt of this communication I will await you or your reply hereto at or near Simmesport, and I would suggest that your letter can be transmitted to me by flag of truce through or pickets at Red River Landing.

I trust that our personal interview may result in arrangements which will be mutually satisfactory to ourselves and the authorities whom we represent.

I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

WILL. M. LEVY,

Major, Asst. Adjutant and Inspector General, Commissioner.

Proceedings of a board of officers convened at Point Lookout, Md., in obedience to the following orders:

GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SAINT MARY'S, NO. 24.
Point Lookout, Md., May 24, 1864.

A board of officers is hereby appointed to investigate and report upon the alleged shooting of Mark Lisk, a prisoner of war, by Private Richard Peterson, Thirty-sixth U. S. Colonel Troops, on the 21st of April; also the alleged shooting of William Jones, Second Virginia, and other prisoners of war by Private Miles Holloway, Company F, Thirty-sixth U. S. Colonel Troops, on the 23rd of May, 1864.

Detail for the Board. -Colonel Charles E. Hapgood, Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers; Major H. G. O. Weymounth, First U. S. Volunteers; Captain H. F. H. Miller, Thirty-sixth U. S. Colored Troops. The Board will meet at the headquarters of the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers at 3 o'clock this p. m. or as soon thereafter as practicable.

By command of Colonel A. G. Draper, commanding District of Saint Mary's:

RICHARD F. ANDREWS,

First Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SAINT MARY'S, NO. 175.
Point Lookout, Md., May 25, 1864.

Captain William H. Hart, Thirty-sixth U. S. Colored Troops, is hereby details as a member of the Board convened by General Orders, No. 24, in place of Colonel Charles E. Hapgood, Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers, relieved on account of ill-health.

By command of Colonel A. G. Draper, commanding District of Saint Mary's;

RICHARD F. ANDREWS,
First Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

The Board me to pursuant to the above orders-present, Major H. G. O. Weymounth, Captain William H. Hart-and proceeded to investigate the alleged shooting of Mark Lisk, a prisoner of war, on the 21st of April, 1864.

Lieutenant EDWIN C. GASKILL, called and duly sworn.

Question. What is your name and rank?

Answer. Edwin C. Gaskill, second lieutenant, Thirty-sixth U. S. Colored Troops. I was on guard at the time prisoner of war was shot. I do not know what his name was. Think the shooting took place between 1 and 3 o'clock in the morning; it was quite light; think the moon was up. I did not give the orders to the guard. The senior officer of the guard, Lieutenant Titcomb, gave them. The orders were to allow no men to cluster around the cook-houses except at meal times, and to allow