Question. What did you see done after the place was taken?
Answer. After peace was made some of the secesh soldiers came around cursing the boys that were wounded. They shot one of them about the hand, aimed to shoot him in the head, as he lay on the ground, and hit him in the hand; and an officer told the secesh soldier if he did that again he would arrest him, and he went off then.
Question. Did they burn any buildings?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Was anybody burned in the buildings?
Answer. I did not see anybody burned; I saw them burn the buildings; I was not able to walk about; I staid in a building that night with some three or four white men.
Question. Do you know anything about their going into the hospital and killing those who were there sick in bed?
Answer. We had some three or four of our men there, and some of our men came in and said they had killed two women and two children.
Duncan Harding, (colored,) private, company A, 6th United States heavy artillery, sworn and examined.