By Senator Reyburn:
Q. Then General Pearson left before these troops marched down? That is the Weccacoe Legion, with the Gatling guns—he left before that?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And it was before the firing took place?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. That was the detachment that attempted to put the crowd back off Twenty-eighth street?
A. I cannot say whether it was the Weccacoe Legion or Washington Grays. I understood they were both there, but I could not distinguish them, they were all, as a matter of course, strangers to me. I saw "W.L." on their knapsacks, of either the front or rear rank. I could not see which it was.
Q. General Pearson could not have been there at the time of the firing?
A. No, sir; it was impossible for him to be there without my knowing, for he gave me orders to remain with General Brinton, while he went to the telegraph office, and I know there was no officer there except myself. When a man is alone, he generally knows it.
Q. No officer of your division there—that is, General Brinton and his command were there?