Answer. Acting assistant surgeon in charge of wards A, B, C, and D, Mound City general hospital. The adjutant of the 13th Tennessee cavalry is in ward B.
Question. Have you prepared a statement of his case?
Answer. Yes, sir; and also of Captain Porter, who is in the same ward, and who was too weak to be examined this morning.
First Lieutenant Mack J. Seaming, adjutant 13th Tennessee cavalry, gunshot wound of right side, received at Fort Pillow, April 12, 1864. Ball entered right side below inferior angle of scapula, between sixth and seventh rib, ranged downward and was lost in muscles near hip. Wounded after he had surrendered; shot by a man standing thirty feet above him on the bank. Present condition of patient good, with fair prospect of recovery.
Captain John H. Potter, company B, 13th Tennessee cavalry, wounded at Fort Pillow, April 12, 1864. Ball fractured skull, carrying away a portion of left parietal and frontal bones, leaving brain exposed for a distance of an inch and a half; was wounded early in the fight by a sharpshooter before the surrender. Present condition almost hopeless, has remained insensible ever since he was wounded.
CHARLES H. VAIL, M. D.,
Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A., in charge of officers' ward.
Doctor J. A. C. McCoy, sworn and examined.
By Mr. Gooch:
Question. What is your rank and position?
Answer. Acting assistant surgeon in charge of wards O, P, Q, and R, in Mound City general hospital.
Question. Have you any of the wounded soldiers from Fort Pillow in your wards?