hing while they were shooting?

A. All I heard was: "Shoot him, shoot him!" "Yonder he goes!"
"Kill him, kill him!" That is about all I heard.

Q. How many do you suppose you saw shot after they surrendered?

A. I did not see but two or three shot around me. One of the boys
of our company, named Taylor, ran up there, and I saw him shot
and fall. Then another was shot just before me, like--shot down
after he threw down his arms.

Q. Those were white men?

A. Yes, sir. I saw them make lots of niggers stand up, and then
they shot them down like hogs. The next morning I was lying
around there waiting for the boat to come up. The secesh would be
prying around there, and would come to a nigger, and say: "You
ain't dead, are you?" They would not say any thing; and then the
secesh would get down off their horses, prick them in their
sides, and say: "Damn you, you ain't dead; get up." Then they
would make them get up on their knees, when they would shoot them
down like hogs.

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Q. Did you see any rebel officers about while this shooting was
going on?

A. I do not know as I saw any officers about when they were
shooting the negroes. A captain came to me a few minutes after I
was shot; he was close by me when I was shot.

Q. Did he try to stop the shooting?

A. I did not hear a word of their trying to stop it. After they
were shot down, he told them not to shoot them any more. I begged
him not to let them shoot me again, and he said they would not.
One man, after he was shot down, was shot again. After I was shot
down, the man I surrendered to went around the tree I was against
and shot a man, and then came around to me again and wanted my
pocket-book. I handed it up to him, and he saw my watch-chain and
made a grasp at it, and got the watch and about half the chain.
He took an old Barlow knife I had in my pocket. It was not worth
five cents; was of no account at all, only to cut tobacco with.

Lieutenant McJ. Leming, sworn and examined.

By Mr. Gooch:

Q. Were you in the fight at Fort Pillow?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. What is your rank and position?

A. I am a First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Thirteenth
Tennessee Cavalry. A short time previous to the fight I was
Post-Adjutant a