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Capt. R. 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 Exchange Barracks and Convalescent Camps:
CAPTAIN: In compliance with orders I respectfully submit the following in regard to the shooting of a Confederate prisoner of war at Exchange Barracks this morning:

Lewis Price, private, Company A, Second Missouri Infantry, was on duty as guard on post No. 3, at northwest corner of the barracks building, and his instruction was to keep the prisoners out of the windows and not allow them to throw anything out of the windows at people passing along the streets. J. H. Reese, first lieutenant, Company G, Fortieth Indiana Infantry, commanding guard, gave the instructions.

The man who was shot came to the window and got up into the window, and the sentinel ordered him away three times, and he paid no attention to the command, and the guard shot him (meaning T. J. Smith, private, Company B, Fifth Georgia), causing his death. I immediately went upstairs and made inquiries what the prisoner had done to be shot. The prisoners standing by when Smith was shot told me Smith was standing in the window making sport of the sentinel, and remarked that the damned old gun was of no use, and that they would not kill him, & c The prisoners told me that he ought to be shot; that he had orders to keep away from the windows.

I am, captain, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JNO. S. LAKIN,
Commanding Exchange Barracks.