About this time a squad of rebels came around, it would seem for the purpose of murdering what negroes they could find. They began to shoot the wounded negroes all around there, interspersed with the whites. I was lying a little way from a wounded negro, when a secesh soldier came up to him and said: "What in hell are you doing here?" The colored soldier said he wanted to get on the gunboat. The secesh soldier said: "You want to fight us again, do you? Damn you, I'll teach you," and drew up his gun and shot him dead. Another negro was standing up erect a little way from me; he did not seem to be hurt much. The rebel loaded his gun again immediately. The negro begged of him not to shoot him, but he drew up his gun and took deliberate aim at his head. The gun snapped, but he fixed it again, and then killed him. I saw this. I heard them shooting all around there--I suppose killing them. By the chairman: Question. Do you know of any rebel officers going on board our gunboat after she came up? Answer. I don't know about the gunboat, but I saw some of them on board the Platte Valley, after I had been carried on her. They came on board, and I think went in to drink with some of our officers. I think one of the rebel officers was General Chalmers. Question. Do you know what officers of ours drank with them? Answer. I do not. Question. You know that they did go on board the Platte Valley and drink with some of our officers? Answer. I did not see them drinking at the time, but I have no doubt they did; that was my impression from all I saw, and I thought our officers might have been in better business. Question. Were our officers treating these rebel officers with attention? Answer. They seemed to be; I did not see much of it, as they passed along by me. Question. Do you know whether or not the conduct of the privates, in murdering our soldiers after they had surrendered, seemed to have the approval of their officers? Answer. I did not see much of their officers, especially during the worst of those outrages; they seemed to be back. Question. Did you observe any effort on the part of their officers to suppress the murders? Answer. No, sir; I did not see any where I was first carried; just about dusk, all at once several shots were fired just outside. The cry was: "They are shooting the darkey soldiers." I heard an officer ride up and say: "Stop that firing; arrest that man." I suppose it was a rebel officer, but I do not know. It was reported to me, at the time, that several darkeys were shot then. An officer who stood by me, a prisoner, said that they had been shooting them, but that the general had had it stopped. Question. Do you know of any of our men in the hospital being murdered? Answer. I do not. Question. Do you know anything of the fate of your quartermaster, Lieutenant Akerstrom?