Thomas Neil.
SWORN.

Q. How long have you been in the 41st?
A. Seventeen years next October.

Q. How often have you been in action?
A. Eight or nine times.

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Q. How often have you been in action with Lieutenant Bender?
A. Four different times.

Q. What were those actions?
A. River Raisin, Miami Rapids, Brownstown, and Buffalo.

Q. At the action of 22d January, in what wing, and in whose company were you?
A. I was in Lieutenant Bender’s division, in the right wing.

Q. What distance were you from him?
A. Four or Five [sic] files in the rear rank.

Q. Who was Lieutenant Bender’s covering Serjeant?
A. Serjeant Dukes.

Q. How long did the action continue on the right?
A. I was wounded before it ended, it commenced one hour and a half before I was wounded.

Q. Did you leave the field before, or after the troops charged the enemy behind the picketing?
A. Before.

Q. At what distance were you engaged at the time Lieutenant Bender went in front to pick up the firelock?
A. About two hundred yards.

Q. Were the enemy at the time firing with musketry; or artillery?
A. With musketry.

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Examined by the Court.

Q. Did you during the action, see a horse and sled in front of the ravine?
A. No.