Question. Were you on the ground after the battle of Fort Pillow?
Answer. Yes, sir; the day after the battle.
Question. What did you see there?
Answer. A great many dead men.
Question. Did you see any man there that had been nailed down to a board and burned?
Answer. Yes, sir; I saw the nails through his clothes after he was taken up.
Question. In what position did he lie?
Answer. On his back. There were nails through his clothes and through the cartridge-box.
Question. So that it fastened him to the boards in such a way that he could not get up, even if he had been alive?