Q. Do you know of any obstacle whatever to these men having been taken ashore at Old Point Comfort and carried to Hampton?
A. I went up twice to Washington, with Colonel Baker, when he abandoned Hampton; but I think at the time the prisoners were on board we had the occupation of Hampton by our troops. My impression is, we occupied it partly with our troops at that time. I went to Washington at another time, when the troops had abandoned Hampton, and Colonel Baker took his soldiers up in the same boat.
Q. A college has been described on shore, and the locality described. Was it not occupied as an hospital?
A. Yes, sir, at the time the Minnesota arrived. It is not in Hampton.
Q. When the Minnesota arrived with the prisoners was not that building in possession of our Government?
A. It was, sir, I believe. I was not in it.
By Mr. Evarts: Is not the hospital at Old Point?
A. Near Old Point.
By Mr. Brady: Designate on the chart where it is?
A. I have done so,—the square mark, on the shore, in the rear of the fort, on the Virginia shore.