REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR FORT PILLOW MASSACRE. RETURNED PRISONERS. 38TH CONGRESS, } SENATE. {REP. COM. _1ST SESSION_. } {NO. 63. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. MAY 5, 1864.--Ordered to be printed, and that 20,000 additional copies be printed for the use of the Senate. JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Committee on the Conduct of the War to examine into the recent attack on Fort Pillow. _Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled_, That the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War be, and they are hereby, instructed to inquire into the truth of the rumored slaughter of the Union troops, after their surrender, at the recent attack of the rebel forces upon Fort Pillow, Tennessee; as, also, whether Fort Pillow could have been sufficiently re-enforced or evacuated, and if so, why it was not done; and that they report the facts to Congress as soon as possible. Approved April 21, 1864. Mr. WADE submitted the following REPORT. _The Joint Committee on the Conduct and Expenditures of the War, to whom was referred the resolution of Congress instructing them to investigate the late massacre at Fort Pillow, designated two members of the committee--Messrs. Wade and Gooch--to proceed forthwith to such places as they might deem necessary, and take testimony. That sub-committee having discharged that duty, returned to this city, and submitted to the joint committee a report, with accompanying papers and testimony. The report was read and adopted by the committee, whose chairman was instructed to submit the same, with the testimony, to the Senate, and Mr. Gooch to the House, and ask that the same be printed._ REPORT OF SUB-COMMITTEE. Messrs. WADE and GOOCH, the sub-committee appointed by the Joint Committee on the Conduct and Expenditures of the War, with instructions to proceed to such points as they might deem necessary for the purpose of taking testimony in regard to the massacre at Fort Pillow, submitted the following report to the joint committee, together with the accompanying testimony and papers: In obedience to the instructions of this joint committee adopted on the 18th ultimo, your committee left Washington on the morning of the 19th, taking with them the stenographer of this committee, and proceeded to Cairo and Mound City, Illinois; Columbus, Kentucky; and Fort Pillow and Memphis, Tennessee; at each of which places they proceeded to take testimony.