Q. Did you notice whether any of the other officers had swords on?
A. No, sir; I did not notice particularly.
Q. How would you distinguish an officer?
A. Well, I would distinguish him by his clothes, of course.
Q. If there were a number of men there, how did you distinguish it was General Pearson gave the command?
A. I could not help to distinguish him, because I knew him personally—knew him to be what they call a general. He had a blouse on.
Q. Did he order them to load, or anything preliminary—he just said fire?
A. Just gave the command to fire?
Q. Did he give that directly to the men themselves?
A. I could not say whether it was direct to the men, because immediately after he gave the command to fire, they commenced to fire—whether it was passed down the line or not, I could not say.