The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-02-28


Before the conclusion of the cross examina-
ton, at half past three, p. m. the Court adjourn
ed to 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
FOURTH DAY.
The Court met pursuant to adjournment
the members present.
The journal of the third day was read and
slightly amended.
Jno. M. Brawley the witness under examine
ton when the Court adjourned yesterday, was
again put upon the stand.
Cross examination continued
The detachment at the water gate consisted OF
| Sc men, commanded by Leutenant-therc were
! a sergeant and two corporals-the orders given
| to this detachment were to convey the prisoners
to the water and also to the wood pile-the guard
we're ordered to open the gate whenever number
| of prisoners offered to go and get water at the
| creek-I am not positive whether the orders
were from sunrise to dark.
| We had written orders, but cannot tell exact
| ly what these were. 1t was the practice to open
| the gate any time after sunrise, when number
| of prisoners presented themselves, and let them
| go to the creek; know that they were always
| allowed to do this when was officer Of the day.
! This creek was half mile or less from the prison
the ground descended think from the prison
| to the creek Don't know how deep ditch
would be required to convey the creek through
or into the prison. can't say much about Maj.
! Gees seeing that the prisoners had water. The
! Lieutenant had the orders to let them get water.
The water gate was closed about six O'Clock, or
about dark-the prisoners generally used barrels
to convey water in the prison.
don't know that the same squad could go as
. often as they wished during the day-don't know
. that there were orders against it. If had seen q
prisoner going for water whom had seen going
before, had no orders to prevent his going.
have not seen the prisoners go out in squads to
gather leaves in grove near the PRISON. have
never seen them gather leaves. We drew some
clothes from the government, we got clothes
from the squad master-don't recollect when we
drew it, we drew but a small amount-some Of
my men drew jacket or roundabout, pants,
shirt and drawers l think this was in January
1865, but am not positive: / think so because il
was short time before the prisoners were taken
away-don't recollect how many Of my men drew
this amount of clothing, think over half drew it.
don't know whether they got the amount they
were entitled to by the regulations or not. My
regiment was without uniform. The government
issued clothing to my regiment but one time
while at Salisbury-our regiment was entitled to
the same allowance that other troops in the Con
federatc service were entitledto Camp and gar
rison equipage were scarce among the troops
about Salisbury-can't describe the scarcity-we
got no axes and spades, if any were there-the rea
son say they were scarce is, we did not gel
them-the company officers of our company tried
to get the Colonel to get them-don't know that
the Colonel tried to get them, he said he did.
There was ditch to drain the sink of the pris
on down through an old field, and piece Of
woods-don'tknow whether it went to the creek
or not-there were several leaders from various
parts of the prison to this main ditch. THE wit
/ ness was here shown diagram of the prison and
pointed out the relative positions of the sink, the
| bitches and other points in the enclosure but
| seemed not to be able to fully understand the
| map.]
When it mined, the prison was drained by the
bitches, the water running through the sink and
into the main ditch out of the prison. I do not
| know that prisoners were engaged in doing po-
| lice duty-don't know that there were a large
number of persons engaged daily in cleaning up
the prison-don't know anything of prisoners
outside being allowed to bring in wood.
Here the cross examination closed and the Com
mission took a recess of fifteen minutes.
| Direct examination resumed.
| O. You have said that the troops suffered, al
Salisbury for want offood and shelter, what do you
mean by that.
| Answer They had not wood enough moi
enough to eat, and were without shelter, 1 think
that caused them to suffer.
| BY THE COURT.
O.. Where did the prisoners lie at night, when
the ground was muddy, those who had not bur
| rows or tents!
| A. / do not know. 6E
@. Did you make tours through the grounds in
the day or night, while oficer.of the day9
| A. do not recollect-I was in and out.
Don't recollect being in the prison at the hour
of tattoo. don't know whether the rations al
lowed the guard on duty, were sufficient to KEEP
man in good health-our men were generally
| old feeble men-cannot say whether the treat
/ ment hurt them or not.
| d. Il. Lycrly, sWOIH-OO ycsiio Oiu-d naSC liVcu
in the County of Rowan was part of the time
in the Confederate army (at the commencement,
1 and was part of the time at Salisbury-was as
signed to duty at Salisbury-act as Clerk of the
prison, under the command of Maj. Gibbs-this
was in the Spring of 1868 81 remained as Clerk o.
the prison until February 1865-my duties were to
keep record of the prison-the number received
number sent away-to keep record of those
who died, and to count the prisoners, or see then
counted, morning and evening. recognize the
prisoner, his name is John II. Gee, he was com
mander of the prison at Salisbury from Septem
Der 1854, till I left there in February 1865. un
derstood he was assigned there by the Secretary
of War, and he reported to Gen. Gardner. Gen
Gardner was Brigadier General and Commanded
Department of prisoners, that is my impression
first went to Salisbury in 1858, the prisoner
were officers and soldiers of the United States
army. At the time Maj. Gee took command il
September 1884, think there about, 264 prison
ers, convicts and political prisoners, SO well as
recolect; the first federal prisoners arrived abou
the 4th and 9th of October, 1864, and about thu
18th they all got re-the number was 9OSl, in
Guiding conyicts and political prisoners after they
had all arrived. A short time after they cam.