Answer. Out towards Brownsville, between twelve and eighteen miles.
Question. What did you do after you were captured?
Answer. I helped to bury some of the dead; then I came to the commissary store, and helped to carry out some forage.
Question. Did you hear the rebels say anything about a fight?
Answer. Nothing more than it was the hardest fight they had been in, with the force we had here. I was then with the 2d Missouri cavalry.
Question. What did they say about giving quarter?
Answer. They said they would show no quarter to colored troops, nor to any of the officers with them, but would kill them all.
Question. Who said that?
Answer. One of the captains of the 2d Missouri. He shot six himself, but, towards evening, General Forrest issued an order not to kill any more negroes, because they wanted them to help to haul the artillery out.
Question. How do you know that?