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[page 1385] 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