Question. Do you know the nature of it?
Answer. It was for an unconditional surrender.
Question. It was refused by Major Booth?
Answer. By Major Bradford, yes, sir. Major Booth had been killed. He asked for time to consult with the gunboat, and finally returned the answer that there was none of Hawkins's men there, and he never would surrender.
Question. Did not Major Bradford make any protest against troops coming up under the flag in that way?
Answer. I don't know, sir.
Question. When the flag went back did they commence firing again?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Kept it up for how long?
Answer. They commenced firing again, but the firing didn't last fifteen minutes. Up to this time there had not been twenty killed on our side.