Q. A pistol shot?
A. As nearly as I could state. Then there was a house on the road going up to the hospital grounds—there was a man behind that that was firing down this way—I saw that they both fired about the same time. There must have been a dozen pistol shots almost simultaneously with the lumps of coal and stones.
Q. Did that house stand near the gate that leads up to the hospital?
A. Yes. I think this end of the house was on a line with the gate. The watch-box would be down here [indicating] across the street, and up a little from the railroad. I was out there a month or so ago, and it has been removed.
Q. Where was your battery?
A. Right in there. [Indicating.]
Q. A little above the watch-house?
A. A little above the watch-house.
Major J. B. Steen, sworn: