XI.

I, _William Mitchell_, being duly sworn upon the holy evangelists
of Almighty God, depose and say--

That, on the evening of the 6th of April, when the alarm
commenced, I was in the lower part of No. 1 yard. I walked up
towards the gate to learn the cause; when I had got about half
way, I heard a single musket fired, and immediately after a whole
volley. I then saw several men carrying one that was wounded, the
soldiers keeping up the whole time a steady fire, and the
prisoners all endeavoring to get into the prisons; the lower doors
being closed in the interim; it was with much difficulty they
could get in, the soldiers pursuing them the whole time, and
charging them with bayonets; and after getting into the prison, I
heard the firing of musketry in all directions round the prison:
and further the deponent saith not.

WILLIAM MITCHELL.

No. XII.

I, _John G. Gatchell_, having been duly sworn, depose and say--

That I was walking in the yard, towards the gate. The first I
knew, was the soldiers coming into the yard, with Capt. Shortland
at their head, when an immediate fire began from the soldiers, and
one man fell within six feet of me. While in the act of rendering
this man assistance, I heard Captain Shortland order the soldiers
to kill the damn'd rascal--meaning me; immediately the soldiers
came and pricked me with their bayonets, and I was forced to run
to the prison at the hazard of my life, and leave the man that was
wounded.

JOHN G. GATCHELL.

No. XIII.

_James Taylor_, having been duly sworn, deposeth, that he was
standing at the gate in the market square, at the time Captain
Shortland, with a file of soldiers, entered the square. Captain
Shortland ordered a prisoner in the square to go into the prison,
when he immediately complied. He then ordered the soldiers to
charge; and instantly observed to the commanding officer of the
military--"It is no use to charge on the damn'd Yankee
rascals--FIRE"--when this commenced immediately. The prisoners at
that time were rushing in the prisons as fast as possible, and
principally out of the square.--After the prisoners were mostly in
the prison of No. 4, a boy, of ten years of age, was shot through