ive? 'Answer. I lived three miles
the other side of Brown's mills.

'Question. How long since you lived with him? 'Answer. I
went home once and staid with him a while, but he got to
cutting up and I came away again.

'Question. What did you do before you went into the fight?
'Answer. I was cooking for Co. K, of Illinois cavalry; I
cooked for that company nearly two years.

'Question. What white officers did you know in our army?
'Answer. I knew Captain Meltop and Colonel Ransom; and I
cooked at the hotel at Fort Pillow, and Mr. Nelson kept it.
I and Johnny were cooking together. After they shot me
through the hand and head, they beat up all this part of my
head (the side of his head) with the breach of their guns.

"Ransome Anderson, (colored), Co. B, 6th United States heavy
artillery, sworn and examined. By Mr. Gooch:

'Question. Where were you raised? 'Answer. In Mississippi.

'Question. Were you a slave? 'Answer. Yes, sir.

'Question. Where did you enlist? 'Answer. At Corinth.

'Question. Were you in the fight at Fort Pillow? 'Answer.
Yes, sir.

'Question. Describe what you saw done there. 'Answer. Most
all the men that were killed on our side were killed after
the fight was over. They called them out and shot them down.
Then they put some in the houses and shut them up, and then
burned the houses.

'Question. Did you see them burn? 'Answer. Yes, sir.

'Question. Were any of them alive? 'Answer. Yes, sir; they
were wounded, and could not walk. They put them in the
houses, and then burned the houses down.

'Question. Do you know they were in there? 'Answer. Yes,
sir; I went and looked in there.

'Question. Do you know they were in there when the house was
burned? 'Answer. Yes, sir; I heard them hallooing there when
the houses were burning.

'Question. Are you sure they were wounded men, and not dead,
when they were put in there? 'Answer. Yes, sir; they told
them they were going to have the doctor see them, and then
put them in there and shut them up, and burned them.

'Question. Who set the house on fire? 'Answer. I saw a rebel
soldier take some grass and lay it by the door, and set it
on fire. The door was pine plank, and it caught easy.

'Question. Was the door fastened up? 'Answer. Yes, s