By the chairman:
Question. What is your rank and position in the service?
Answer. I am a lieutenant colonel and assistant adjutant general of the 16th army corps.
Question. How many troops do your records show to have gone from the 6th United States heavy artillery (colored) to Fort Pillow?
Answer. There were 221 officers and men left Memphis to go to Fort Pillow.
Question. How many whites went there?
Answer. None were sent from here. I understand, unofficially, that the colored troops were recruited, to some extent, after they arrived at Fort Pillow; but I have no official knowledge of that fact. Of the 221 officers and men who went from here, there are thirty here who escaped, and some twenty or more above at Mound City and Cairo.
Question. Do you know what was the character and military experience of Major Bradford?
Answer. To the best of my knowledge and belief, Major Bradford had no military experience. I had known him for about a year. He never claimed to have had any military experience.
Question. What was the character of Major Booth as a military man?