The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-03-07
SIXTH DAY.
TUESDAY, Feb. 9th, 'G6.
MORNING SESSION.

MORNING SESSION.
The Court met pursuant to adournment-all
the members being present.
The journals of the morning and evening ses-
sions of yesterday were read and approved.
NJ C. Davis was recalled to the stand He tes-
titled that the night Of the firing was, as near as
he recolected, the one before the outbreak
don't remember the date of the out-break-thinks
it was in November. 1 heard the firing three or
four times during the night-there was not more
than one shot at time. l don't know the in
structions to the guards that night think the
weather was tolerably cool heard no order CIV
en- by the sentinels to the prisoners during the
firing.
1 was ordered to report to prison head quarters
and was there ordered by Adj. Stockton to report
to Maj. Goodman, post O. NJ, and he ordered me
to station on the W. N. c. r. R., about miles
from Salisbury, to cut wood. l had so men-we
staid there chopping wood for week-it was ta-
ken by cars to the prison, once or twice day
Plenty of wood up there, of course there was
limit to the amount of wood but there was fine
chance of it.
When unusual squads assembled in the prison
the orders were to tell them to disperse-if after
three or four times warning they refused to obey,
the orders were to compel them to obey by the
use of the guns. My instructions were to order
them three different times.
Their quarters were the tents inside the stock
AIDES. The prisoners could not all get in tents,
but they had other conveniences made by.means
of boards and sticks-they could all get in these
and in the tents, think
never acted as officer of the day while the
large number of prisoners were there-suppose
did sometimes while Maj. Gee was there. re-
ceived instructions from Maj. Gee-they included
instructions for the whole prison in every way
instructions not to allow provisions to be given
or sold to the prisoners. Don't know the daily
amount of rations allowed the prisoners. The
prisoners complained of being hungry very often.
These complaints were made, during the time the
orders were in force not to allow provisions to be
given orsold to them. Many of the prisoners
died while they were there can't give the
number that died daily. The day had charge of
the gate, about thirty were carried out-I can't
say as to any other day.
As officer of the guard, was inside the prison
my duty was to post the guard-don't Iemem-
Der that any officer but sergeant was detailed to
attend to the police of the prison. He seemed to
be urItler Maj Motifs orders. visited the hos
pital inside once-don't know what sick were in
that hospital went in with Priest, who come
to see some friends there.
THE witness was here shown the diagram of
the prison grounds, and pointed out the different
buildings and their relative positions and uses
was there at the time of the killing of Lieut.
Davis-[pointed out the place on the map where
he lay when he saw him. saw him, suppose,
fifteen minutes after he was killed The or
ders were not to allow prisoners to get between
the ditch, which was called the dead line,'' and
the fence. The body Of Davis, when saw it, lay
on the inside of the dead line. There were about
two hundred federal officers there at the time
They occupied the four wooden buildings, and
were separated from the enlisted men by guard
line. WITNESS pointed out on the map this guard
line, and the sink used by the officers Lieut.
Davis's body lay about twenty steps from the
sink. Itwas something near in line from one
OF the houses to the sink. have seen persons
prevented from selling provisions to the prison