would only add to the foregoing, that, after the capit- ulation, all our wounded were lodged in open carts, where they remained three days. When they were led out to be shot, six of them escaped; one of whom, as he afterward stated to me, got away in the following manner: when they were fired upon, he, though not wounded, fell with the rest and pretended to be dead; but a soldier, in pulling off his clothes, suspected him not dead, and then thrust his bayonet into his shoul- der, and struck him on the back of his head. He then turned him over, cut his throat, and again ln1ocked him on the head with the breech of his gun. All this he bore without betraying signs of life. He remained on the spot until the soldiers having done the work assigned them, returned to the fort. He afterward crawled off and made his escape. He stated that he left others alive, one of whom raised himself up and asked for assistance. How long they remained in this position I do not know. Their bodies were not burned until the next day. When the Convention of :March came together, it was with very different feelings, and with sentiments concerning measures necessary to the public welfare, not a little dissimilar to those which were the cause of so much unfortunate discord among some of the mem- bers of ·the late provisional government. Past expe- rience had done away the motive to dissension that
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