most convenient. Give notice to the quartermaster at Baltimore. Report by telegram to this office when they will leave, and how many.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. HOFFMAN,

Colonel Third Infantry and Commissary-General of Prisoners.

HEADQUARTERS U. S. MILITARY PRISON,
Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Ind., October 2, 1864.

Colonel W. HOFFMAN,

Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C.:

COLONEL: I have the honor to transmit herewith a report of a commission appointed to investigate the case of shooting of George T. Douglass, Confederate prisoner of war, on the 16th of September, 1864.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. A. STEVENS,

Colonel Fifth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, Commanding Camp Morton.

[First indorsement.]

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Washington, D. C., October 7, 1864.

Respectfully submitted to the Secretary of War for his information.

W. HOFFMAN,

Colonel Third Infantry and Commissary-General of Prisoners.

[Second indorsement.]

WAR DEPARTMENT, October 12, 1864.

Referred to Major-General Hitchcock, commissioner for exchange, for his information.

By order of the Secretary of War:

C. A. DANA,

Assistant Secretary of War.

[Inclosure.]

HEADQUARTERS CAMP MORTON, September 24, 1864.

A commission was convened to investigate the shooting of George T. Douglass, Confederate prisoner of war, in pursuance of the following order:

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CAMP MORTON, Numbers 41. September 23, 1864.

A commission is hereby appointed to investigate the shooting of George T. Douglass, Confederate prisoner of war, at Camp Morton military prison, on the 16th instant, by Private Samuel Hendeson, Company C, Fifth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, to convene at 2 o'clock this p. m. or as soon thereafter as practicable, and report their proceedings to these headquarters.

Detail for the commission: Captain A. J. Guthridge, Company E, Fifth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps; Captain George E. Pingree, Company I, Fifth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps; First Lieutenant George Wagne, adjutant, Fifth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, recorder.

By order of A. A. Stevens, colonel Fifth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, commanding post:

GEORGE WAGNER,
First Lieutenant and Adjutant.

The commission met at headquarters of Camp Morton on the above date; present, all the members.