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little afraid of him. How long did you
lay under the fire at Port Hudson?
A. 48 days.
Q. How about throwing coal at Peter
Haines and hitting him in the
back? Ans. I have seen the man when
he would be lying on the coal pile
asleep. Some times I would take in
my hand a few cinders and toss
them over towards him. That is all
there was to that.
Q. Hit him? A. Not very often that
I know of Peter was not hurt by it.
I was not present when Stackpole testified.
I remember Sweeney. I never swept the
floor with him or kicked him out of
the coal shed. I never took him by
the collar and dragged him round the
floor of the fire room and then kicked
him out of the coal shed, or any thing
of that sort.
By Mr. Fall:
There is a man there by the name
of Guptill. He used to come down into
my fire room and smoke some times
Think he is there now. I never abused

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