water. At that time it was about dusk. He carried me up just to
the edge of the Fort, and laid me down. There seemed to be quite
a number of dead collected there. They were throwing them into
the outside trench, and I heard them talking about burying them
there. I heard one of them say: "There is a man who is not quite
dead yet." They buried a number there; I do not know how many.

I was carried that night to a sort of little shanty that the
rebels had occupied during the day with their sharp-shooters. I
received no medical attention that night at all. The next morning
early I heard the report of cannon down the river. It was the
gun-boat 28 coming up from Memphis; she was shelling the rebels
along the shore as she came up. The rebels immediately ordered
the burning of all the buildings, and ordered the two buildings
where the wounded were to be fired. Some one called to the
officer who gave the order, and said there were wounded in them.
The building I was in began to catch fire. I prevailed upon one
of our soldiers who had not been hurt much to draw me out, and I
think others got the rest out. They drew us down a little way, in
a sort of gully, and we lay there in the hot sun without water or
any thing.

About this time a squad of rebels came around, it would seem for
the purpose of murdering what negroes they could find. They began
to shoot the wounded negroes all around there, interspersed with
the whites. I was lying a little way from a wounded negro, when a
secesh soldier came up to him, and said: "What in hell are you
doing here?" The colored soldier said he wanted to get on the
gun-boat. The secesh soldier said: "You want to fight us again,
do you? Damn you, I'll teach you," and drew up his gun and shot
him dead. Another negro was standing up erect a little way from
me--he did not seem to be hurt much. The rebel loaded his gun
again immediately. The negro begged of him not to shoot him, but
he drew up his gun and took deliberate aim at his head. The gun
snapped, but he fixed it again, and then killed him. I saw this.
I heard them shooting all around there--I suppose killing them.

By the Chairman:

Q. Do you know of any rebel officers going on board our gun-boat
after she came up?

A. I don't know about the gun-boat, but I s