A. I was about seventy-five or one hundred feet when the throwing begun; I heard the word "fire" very distinctly.
Q. Where did it come from?
A. It appeared to come from the head of the column.
Q. Was it in the crowd?
A. I should say, that it came from the head of the military column—there was not more than a space of, I suppose, thirty feet, and it might have been a little more, it could not have been much more than that from the head of the column to Twenty-eighth street, where the crowd was.
Q. From the head of the column?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Which column do you mean?
A. I am not a military man.
Q. You mean the company marched up?