Part 28 (1/2)
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Were you wounded there?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Before or after the surrender?
Answer. It was after I surrendered.
Question. Where were you when you were shot?
Answer. I was under the hill, going up the hill.
Question. What did they say when they shot you?
Answer. I asked them if they did not respect prisoners of war; they said ”no, they did not,” and kept on shooting; and they popped three or four caps in my face with a revolver after they had wounded me.
Question. Did you see them shoot any others after they had surrendered?
Answer. Yes, sir, lots of them; negroes and white men both. They shot them down wherever they came to them.
Question. Were you there the next day after the battle?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. Did you see them shoot anybody the next day?
Answer. I saw them shoot negroes, not white men.
Question. How many did you see them shoot that day?
Answer. I saw them shoot five or six on the hill where I was; they said they shot all they could find.
Question. Were you in the hospital there?
Answer. I was in a house there with the wounded.
Question. Did you see them kill anybody there that was wounded?
Answer. They took two negroes out and shot them.
Question. Did you see them burn any buildings the wounded were in?
Answer. Not the one we were in. I was told they fired some buildings that wounded negroes were in.
Question. Were you where they buried any of the killed?
Answer. I saw them bury some in a ditch in the evening.