Answer. I enlisted on the 6th of August, 1861, in company I, 2d New York regiment.
Question. Where were you taken prisoner?
Answer. I was taken prisoner at Stevensville, Virginia; I was there with Colonel Dahlgren, on Kilpatrick's expedition.
Question. Were you taken prisoner at the same time that Colonel Dahlgren was killed?
Answer. I was there when he was killed, but I was taken prisoner the next morning.
Question. What do you know about the manner of his death and the treatment his body received?
Answer. He was shot within a foot and a half or two feet of me. I got wounded that same night. The next morning I was taken prisoner, and as we came along we saw his body, with his clothes all off. He was entirely naked, and he was put into a hole and covered up.
Question. Buried naked in that way?
Answer. Yes, sir; no coffin at all. Afterwards his body was taken up and carried to a slue and washed off, and then sent off to Richmond. A despatch came from Richmond for his body, and it was sent there.
Question. It has been said they cut off his finger?