Question. Where?
Answer. In the fort, sir—burned in the house.
Question. In connexion with the fort buildings?
Answer. Yes, sir, and out on timber. There was a large number of them burned in the buildings, but they had been buried the day before.
Question. You say there were 580 men, you think, in the fort?
Answer. Yes, sir.
Question. How many do you suppose escaped?
Answer. Well, I know there were not more than 100 as they marched out there surrounded by the other troops, and I would not think there were fifty of them. There were live darkeys in Cairo hospitals who were buried alive. Two of them have died since they got there.
Question. Did you see any of these men buried alive?
Answer. No, I did not; but they are facts that can easily be proved by the darkeys—the darkeys themselves—and those who saw it done, and saw the quartermaster burned, too.