while; and after a time the major
started and told us to take care of ourselves, and I and
twenty more men broke for the hollow. They ordered us to
halt, and some of them said, 'God d--n 'em, kill 'em!' I
said, 'I have surrendered.' I had thrown my gun away then. I
took off my cartridge-box and gave it to one of them, and
said, 'Don't shoot me;' but they did shoot me, and hit just
about where the shoe comes up on my leg. I begged them not
to shoot me, and he said,' God d--n you, you fight with the
niggers, and we will kill the last one of you!' Then they
shot me in the thick of the thigh, and I fell; and one set
out to shoot me again, when another one said, 'Don't shoot
the white fellows any more.

'Question. Did you see any person shot besides yourself?
'Answer. I didn't see them shot. I saw one of our fellows
dead by me.

'Question. Did you see any buildings burned? 'Answer. Yes,
sir. While I was in the major's headquarters they commenced
burning the buildings, and I begged one of them to take me
out and not let us burn there; and he said, 'I am hunting up
a piece of yellow flag for you.' I think we would have
whipped them if the flag of truce had not come in. We would
have whipped them if we had not let them get the dead-wood
on us. I was told that they made their movement while the
flag of truce was in. I did not see it myself, because I
had sat down, as I had been working so hard.

'Question. How do you know they made their movement while
the flag of truce was in? 'Answer. The men that were above
said so. The rebs are bound to take every advantage of us. I
saw two more white men close to where I was lying. That
makes three dead ones, and myself wounded."

Later on during the war the policy of massacring was somewhat abated,
that is it was not done on the battle-field. The humanity of the
confederates in Virginia permitted them to take their black prisoners to
the rear. About a hundred soldiers belonging to the 7th Phalanx
Regiment, with several of their white officers, were captured at Fort
Gilmer on the James River, Va., and taken to Richmond in September,
1864. The following account is given of their treatment in the record of
the Regiment:

"The following interesting sketches of prison-life, as
experienced by two officers of the regiment, capture