'What company did you fight with? 'Answer. I went right into the fort and fought there.
'Question. Were you a slave or a free man? 'Answer. I was a slave.
'Question. Where were you raised? 'Answer. In old Virginia.
'Question. Who was your master? 'Answer. Colonel Hardgrove.
'Question. Where did you live? '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.