O.R. Series 2 - Vol. 8, Page 387-388

"...The executions under the bloody order of General Burbridge commenced about this time. One day immediately after my arrival the provost-marshal, Lieutenant Vance, came into the room, and looking over the men picked out fifteen. They were carried downstairs. In a short time five of them returned. They had drawn lots for their lives and escaped; the other ten were taken out and shot. The day after six others were carried out and executed. Three men who were brought in and belonged to Jessees command, within four hours after their arrival were carried from the prison and hung, and this thing went on until twenty-eight of our number, almost invariably Confederate soldiers, had fallen victims to this unheard-of barbarity. You may imagine I cannot describe the horror and dread which spread amoung the prisoners at witnessing these scenes. These men were not tried before a military commission or court-martial. They were simply selected by the provost-marshal, as it seemed to me, without any reference to the guilt or innocence of the parties, just as a butcher would go into a slaughter pen and select at his will the beeves or the sheep or the hogs which he might wish to destroy... J. D. Morris, Col. C.S. Army"

There are accounts of Confederates killing large groups of prisoners, one of these admitted by a Confederate officer of shooting down a squad of black Union soldiers trying to escape, and being that it became a stampede, ordered them all shot.

Another account of a large execution was by General Sherman who in January 1863, ordered seven of his own men shot for burning and stealing.

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David Upton