Q. In respect to the Perry, what course did she take after you were taken on board?
A. As informed by the captain, next day, she was bound to Florida, to Fernandina, to blockade.
Q. When did she fall in with the Minnesota?
A. About the third day after our capture, I think; lying 8 or 10 miles off Charleston.
Q. In the open ocean?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. You were all transferred to the Minnesota?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. What did the Minnesota do?
A. We were confined on board the Minnesota.