Question. Where did those men come from whose bodies we have just seen unburied?
Answer. I should judge they came from the hospital. One of them had a cane, showing that he was not a well man, and they had on white shirts—hospital clothing—and, as you saw, one looked thin, very thin, as if he had been sick.
Question. How far are these bodies lying from the hospital?
Answer. I should think about 150 yards.
Question. Would men, escaping from the fort, run in that direction?
Answer. They would be very apt to run in almost any direction; and they would be more likely to run away from the stores that these rebels were robbing.
By the chairman:
Question. From the hospital clothing they had on; from their appearance showing that they had been wounded or sick persons; and from the bruised appearance of their heads, as if they had been killed by having their brains knocked out, do you infer that they were hospital patients that had been murdered there?
Answer. I should. I should be just as positive of that as I should be of anything I had not actually seen.
Question. You take it that they were sick or wounded men endeavoring to escape from the hospital, who were knocked in the head?