Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-26

kerehiefs over their heads. They tore
Cd pieces Of their shirts-anylhing they
essld get
O You say lhess men we're shot ia
hospital. with flag fying7
A. fes, sir, lying right down under
it-not up walkIng At all Every man
living near me vas kiIled-iying close
to me and on me. Two lay under, be-
cause they keps pilipg right up on top
close under the bank Il vas Just down
ander she brow Of the hill A great
many lying IN the w&tsr we're shot Trees
that sere laying one end in the water
ard the other on the shore hey would
lasi go over on the other side Of these
aud hide, aud lhe rebsIs would 20 over
and shoot them,
Q. Youz citizens clothes saved you
A. Yes, sir. told them that / bad
nothing TO do Eith them. They robbed
every eitiEeh, and took of all their cloth
ing.
Z. Hoz much did lhey take from
yon7
A. Seventy dollars.
q Yoa say yoa we're robbed Twice
A. Yes once bY the Captain Of the
Company, and once BY the private.
carry my money in ay vest pocket al
ways, and bad my poeket-book in my
pocket with notes in If.
q That was what yoa gave to the
Captain, ~asR't Il?
A. Nes, SIR.
@ And seventy dollars in money 10
the soldieFg
A. Yes, sir: he asked: Give me
your money, and the other asked for
the poeket-book.
A syHspathizsr Tosea By Dogs
Q You say they hza bl0odhounds
did you sec any Of themy
A. Yes, sir; and not ouly /, but
others, saw the same One ofher-Mr
Jones-was treed by them, aud stayed
there long time.
q What Jones was thatg
A. | don't know his given name. He
lives on Island 81 can hnd out bis
name He Is not any TOO good Union
man, but he il rather Southern in bis
feelings
Q. State about Br4dfords death -
when he was shot, aud what was done.
/ Was be wounded before the susrsndef7
A. No, sir; bat il was reported BY
very reliable persons that Bradford was
shot and hung near Cosingian, in
Hatehie River bottom.
q Who told you thisg
A. This same Jones; and there were
some dsFkies came on to the Ranboat
and said that, DaFksy evidence Is VERY
correct thers- Yon might sJs think i
worth while 20 take the evidence, bet Il
Is great deal more 70 be relied apon
than the Southern evidence there I
may state that was inquired AFTER By a
large number Of officers, and i waa said
they would hang me on = hag pole sAsre
V. What for9
A. From the fact that | empiaysd
Government darkies from Colonel Phil
lips, at Msmphia
z. On your plantation :
A. Yes, air And tbey shot AL my
horses unfit for cavalry.
sargge Trsafmemt If Negroes
q Did they shoot your nsgroesg
A understand they dsd, and buFned
them all undeFafand Isey took soas
yellow saman and iwo or fhFee heYs
escaped that | tried 70 take 70 the fort
in the morning 10 help fight The re
msinder, daFkey, whose name do not
know, said they were killed and burned
in the house.
@ You didn't 20 back there, theag
A. didn't 20 back there that Is
only what is told me II vas told 10
persons that we're bid right near, and
saw persons bury the ladies after ihey
we're burned
q Where7
A 10 the fort, sir.
q Burned in the house in connection
with the Fort baildingsT
A. Yes, sirs and oct oa timber.
There was large number Of them bu-
ried IN the bGildiug, bat they had been
buried the day before
@ You say there we're Eve hundred
aud eighty men, you think, ia the Fortf
A. Yes sir
@ How many do you suppose es-
capped
A. Well, know there wesc more than
hundred As they marched out there,
surrounded By the other troops, would
not think there were City Of them.
Negroes Buried Aliee.
There are i've iarkies ia Cairo hospi-
tails who were buried alive Two of
them have died since they got there.
Q. Did you see any of those mea Da-
ried aliveT
A. No, | didn't, but they are facts
that can BE- easily proved by the darkies
themselves, and those who saw il done,
aud saw the QusrteFmaster burned, too.