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Capt. H. M. GOODWIN,
Acting Assistant Provost-Marshal-General:

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to inclose the statements of Captain Lakin, Eighty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in regard to shooting of two rebel prisoners at Barracks No. 1, on the 4th and 5th of December.
I am, captain, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
RALPH HUNT,
Captain First Kentucky infantry, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS EXCHANGE BARRACKS,
Nashville, Tenn., December 5, 1863.

Capt. RALPH HUNT,
Commanding Convalescent Camps and Barracks:

CAPTAIN: Sergt. William McClelland, Company F, Fifty-eighth Alabama, was shot by George Spencer, private Company K, Sixteenth Michigan Infantry. On the morning of the 4th instant said Spencer received his orders from Lieut. Turner Bartley, Company H, Ninth Kentucky Infantry, commanding guard, to shoot the first Confederate prisoner he caught throwing out of the windows at people passing along the streets. Said McClelland did throw two pieces of brick out of the window he afterward got in the window and was spitting down upon Federal soldiers. The guard ordered said McClelland twice to get back on the inside; he (meaning McClelland) shook his head; the guard then shot him dead. Lieutenant Bartley told the Confederate prisoners if they did not keep out of the windows and quit throwing things out that some of them would get shot.
Very respectfully,
JNO. S. LAKIN.
Commanding Exchange Barracks.