In the Senate of the United States : May 5, 1864 ; ordered to be printed, ... joint resolution directing the Committee on the Conduct of the War to examine into the recent attack on Fort Pillow.
- United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
- Date:
- [1864]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: In the Senate of the United States : May 5, 1864 ; ordered to be printed, ... joint resolution directing the Committee on the Conduct of the War to examine into the recent attack on Fort Pillow. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Answer. Yes, sir; they burned the lieutenant’s house, and they said they burned him in the house. Question. He was a white man ? Answer. Yes, sir; quartermaster of the 13th Tennessee cavalry. Question. Did you see them kill him ? Answer. No, sir; I did not see them kill him; I saw the house he was in on lire. Question. Do you know anything about their burying anybody before they were dead ? Answer. No, sir. Question. Where are you from ? Answer. From Tennessee . Question. Have you been a slave ? Answer. Yes, sir. Question. How long have you been in the army ? Answer. About two months. Thomas Adison, (colored,) private, company C, 6th United States heavy ar- tillery, sworn and examined. By the chairman: Question. Where were you raised % Answer. In South Carolina. I was nineteen years old when I came to Mis- sissippi. I was forty years old last March. Question. Were you at Fort Pillow when it was captured? Answer. Yes, sir. Question. When were you wounded—before or after you surrendered ? Answer. Before. Question. What happened to you after you were wounded ? Answer. I went down the hill after we surrendered; then they came down and shot me again in my face, breaking my jaw-bone. Question. How near was the man to you ? Answer. He shot me with a revolver, about ten or fifteen feet off. Question. What happened to you then ? Answer. I laid down, and a fellow came along and turned me over and searched my pockets and took my money. He said: “ God damn his old soul; he is sure dead now ; he is a big, old, fat fellow.” Question. How long did you lay there ? Answer. About two hours. Question. Then what was done with you Answer. They made some of our men carry me up the hill to a house that was full of white men. They made us lie out doors all night, and said that the next morning they would have the doctor fix us up. I -went down to a branch for some water, and a man said to me : “ Old man, if you stay here they will kill you, but if you get into the water till the boat comes along they may save you; ” and I went off. They shot a great many that evening. Question. The day of the fight ? Answer. Yes, sir. I heard them shoot little children not more than that high, [holding his hand off about four feet from the floor,] that the officers had to wait upon them. Question. Did you see them shoot them ? Answer. I did not hold up my head. Question. How did you know that they shot them then ? Answer. I heard them say, “ Turn around so that 1 can shoot you good; ” and then I heard them fire, and then I heard the children fall over. Question. Do you know that those were the boys that waited upon the officers ?](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24883025_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
