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Answer. Dr. Ohr did not write it, did not see it or hear of
it as far as I know of, until after the publication of the pa-
per; I wrote the article on the day before the publication, a
few hours before going to press, and consulted no one in re-
gard to it.

Cross Interrogatory No. 11.

Were the statements in that article true or not? "This
Interrogatory waved."

Cross Interrogatory No. 12.

Don't you know that the proceedings before the military
commission spoken of were set aside by President Lincoln,
who assigned as a reason by endorsement on the proceedings,
that there was no evidence to sustain the charges; and that
the President dismissed the proceedings, and shortly there-
after, wrote a letter to the Board of Public Works of Mary-
land, requesting them to re-elect Mr. A. Spates as President
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, and which was
accordingly done on the 3d of June, 1864?

Answer. I know nothing at all in regard to it.

Cross Interrogatory No. 13.

Do you not know that military commissions and military
court-martials to try citizens in Maryland, not connected
with the army and navy, were unconstitutional; their find-
ings a nnlity, and their findings prima facia evidence of
wrong and falsehood.

Answer. I know nothing in regard to it.

Cross Interrogatory No. 14.

Are not the proceedings and evidence taken before the
military commission spoken of in the editorial, of which you
have testified, a matter of record in the archives of the Sec-
retary of the War Department; and could not an authenti-
cated copy of that record have been produced, to have shown
what the findings were; and do you not know that this rec-
ord would have shown that the whole was a nulity, and set
aside by the President us unsustained by evidence.

Answer. I have no personal knowledge in regard to the
matter.

WILL H. LOUDERMILK.

Neither party desiring to make further interrogatories or
producing other witnesses, I accordingly close this testimony,
and certify that the foregoing is a true statement of answers
given by the several witnesses as they were respectively pro
duced and examined before me this day.