Answer. Not anything of any consequence about the fight.
Question. What were they doing when you were with them?
Answer. Just pillaging the store. They commenced going down to the river, and I came down with them. They went into the quartermaster's department and went a carrying off things.
Question. Did they give any quarter to the negroes?
Answer. No sir.
Question. Did the negroes throw away their arms?
Answer. Yes, sir; and some of them went down on their knees begging for their lives. I saw one shot three times before he was killed.
By the chairman:
Question. What number of our troops do you suppose were killed before the fort was captured?
Answer. I could not tell exactly, but I do not think over a dozen of the cavalry were killed, and probably not more than fifteen or twenty of the negroes. There were a great many of the negroes wounded, because they would keep getting up to shoot, and were where they could be hit.