Question. What was said about it?
Answer. A young man said he saw one in the morning up there who was alive, and he went back a short time afterwards to attend to him, but he was then dead; and I have heard of others who crawled out of their graves, and were taken up on the Platte Valley, but I do not know about them.
Question. Where was this man you found burned?
Answer. He was inside of a tent.
Question. Do you suppose him to have been burned with the tent?
Answer. Yes, sir. I took him to be a white man, because he was in the quarters where the white men were.
Question. So far as you could observe, was any discrimination made between white and black men, as to giving no quarter?
Answer. I should think not, from all I could see, because they were firing from the top of a hill down the bluff on all who had gone down there to escape.
Question. Did you notice how these men had been buried by the rebels?
Answer. I saw officers and white men and black men thrown into the trenches—pitched in in any way, some across, some lengthways, some on their faces, &c. When I first saw them, I noticed a great many with their hands or feet sticking out.