the shooting of John P. McClanahan, prisoner of war, Barrack No. u 8, as he was only in the discharge of his duty as a good soldier and faithful sentinel.

JOS. G. ROBINSON,

Captain Co. G, Fourth Regiment Vet. Reserve Corps, Prostate. of Commission.

PRESS. BISHOP,

First Lieutenant Company A, Fourth Regiment Vet. Reserve Corps, Recorder.

The proceedings and findings in the above case are approved.

A. J. JOHNSON,

Colonel Fourth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, Commanding Post.

[Indorsement.]

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,

Washington, D. C., November 16, 1864.

Respectfully submitted to the Secretary of War.

The proceedings of the board in this unfortunate affairs are approved and respectfully referred, &c.

H. W. WESSELLS,

Brigadier General, U. S. Vols., Inspector and Com. General of Prisoners.

OCTOBER 25, 1864.

Memoranda sent to Major John E. Mulford.

Can you not send by flag of truce Lieutenant F. Y. Dabney and Wharton J. Green, who are now confined at Johnson's Island?

Private David H. Wherrit, Second Kentucky Cavalry, is now confined at Alton penitentiary under sentence when Morgan's command was captured in Ohio, and was captured attempting to reach the Confederate lines.

Lieutenant C. D. Burbridge, aide to Colonel John Q. Burbridge, Fourth Missouri Cavalry, is in the Gratiot Street Prison, Saint Louis, confined in a dungeon and in irons. He is an officer of the Confederate service. Will you inform me why he is so treated.

I have been informed that Privates Samuel B. Hearn, John R. H. Embert, Samuel Cooper, and C. McDonnell, all of the First Maryland Cavalry, and regularly enlisted soldiers, have been condemned as spies and sentenced to the Albany penitentiary. These men were not spies and the circumstances under which they were captured show they were not. Will you please inform me as to the facts in their cases?

[RO. OULD.]

HEADQUARTERS C. S. MILITARY PRISON,
Camp Sumter, Ga., October 25, 1864.

Captain W. S. WINDER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Camp Lawton, Ga.:

CAPTAIN: I received a few minutes ago an official communication from Colonel George. C. Gibbs, commanding post, which reads as follows:

CAMP SUMTER, Andersonville, October 25, 1864.

The temporary authority given to Private James Duncan to act as subtler for the prisoners is hereby withdrawn, by order of General winder, and he will no longer settle for the prisoners.

GEO. C. GIBBS,

Colonel, Commanding.