You see how late it was in the morning.
"Deliver to General Pearson's messengers eight hundred and sixty center prime metallic ball cartridges United States property, there being no ball cartridges belonging to the State at this arsenal.
(Signed)
"James Fitzsimmons."
By mistake, the State troops got all the cartridges I had. My men got forty out of the nine hundred. Each man had two rounds simply.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. Do I understand you to say that you had no ammunition for any of your arms?
A. I had not a round of ammunition suitable for any arm I had in here, for the simple reason that we are in profound peace, surrounded by friends. Since the Frankford arsenal got making metallic cartridges, we had a few rounds here for the use of my men, in case we wanted to shoot. We had a few blank cartridges. We had cannon ammunition, but all the small arm ammunition was broken up and powder taken out of it and balls thrown into the lead pile. We did not have any for arms we had here except, perhaps, a few cartridges for revolvers, which I issued afterwards to the citizens in the town to defend the city—two or three days afterwards.
Q. You have some muzzle loaders?
A. All the muskets are muzzle loaders except——