Answer. No, sir.
Question. How did you get away?
Answer. A few men came up from Memphis, and got a piece of plank and put me on it, and took me down to the boat.
Question. Were any rebel officers around when the rebels were killing our men?
Answer. Yes, sir; lots of them.
Question. Did they try to keep their men from killing our men?
Answer. I never heard them say so. I know General Forrest rode his horse over me three or four times. I did not know him until I heard his men call his name. He said to some negro men there that he knew them; that they had been in his nigger yard in Memphis. He said he was not worth five dollars when he started, and had got rich trading in negroes.
Question. Where were you from?
Answer. I came from South Carolina.
Question. Have you been a slave?