A. Yes.
Q. At the time of the July riots?
A. Yes.
Q. What position did you hold?
A. Private in company A, Eighteenth regiment.
Q. Were you out at Twenty-eighth street on the afternoon of the Twenty-first—Saturday?
A. No, sir; not on the Twenty-first. I was at the Union depot on Saturday.
Q. Did you see the troops start from the Union depot, out?
A. I was there before the Philadelphia troops arrived there on Saturday. I went there with Major Stroud, of General Pearson's staff. He came to General Pearson's head-quarters and wished to report to the general. Their head-quarters were right over my place, on Fifth avenue, and he asked me to go out with him to report to the general, and I did so.
Q. Did you see General Pearson there?