Answer. We all fared pretty rough on corn-bread and beans. Those who were in my ward are here now sick in bed.
Question. How happened it that you fell into the hands of Dr. Walker particularly?
Answer. The way it came about was this: In the morning I asked some officers of the regular regiment for a doctor to dress my wound. One of the doctors there said he could not do it. I spoke to a lieutenant and asked him to be kind enough to get some doctor to dress it, and he got this Dr. Walker. The doctor asked me to go to his house, and stay there if I would. I told him "certainly I would go." The colonel of the rebel regiment said that the doctor could take me there, and I staid until Captain Magruder came up there and told Dr. Walker that I had to be sent to Richmond.
Question. Where were you wounded?
Answer. In the knee.
[At this point the committee concluded to examine no more of the patients in the hospital, as most of them were too weak to be examined without becoming too much exhausted, and because the testimony of all amounted to about the same thing. They therefore confined the rest of their investigation to the testimony of the surgeons in charge, and other persons attending upon the patients.]
Surgeon B. A. Van Derkieft, sworn and examined.
By the chairman:
Question. Are you in the service of the United States; and if so, in what capacity?