Key came over with the balance of the Regulators, and we formed a hollow square around the scaffold, our company marking the line on the East Side.

There were now thirty thousand in the prison.
Of these about one-third packed themselves as tightly about our square as they could stand.

The remaining twenty thousand were wedged together in a solid mass on the North Side.

Again I contemplated the wonderful, startling, spectacle of a mosaic pavement of human faces covering the whole broad hillside.
Outside, the Rebel, infantry was standing in the rifle pits, the artillerymen were in place about their loaded and trained pieces, the No.
4 of each gun holding the lanyard cord in his hand, ready to fire the piece at the instant of command.

The small squad of cavalry was drawn up on the hill near the Star Fort, and near it were the masters of the hounds, with their yelping packs.
All the hangers-on of the Rebel camp--clerks, teamsters, employer, negros, hundreds of white and colored women, in all forming a motley crowd of between one and two thousand, were gathered together in a group between the end of the rifle pits and the Star Fort.