Q. What time did you arrive at Beaver?
A. About midnight, I guess.
Q. Sunday night?
A. Yes sir.
Q. And from Beaver where?
A. From Beaver the intention was to go to Erie. Upon inquiry at Pittsburgh, the railroad officials informed us that they could not get their trains through to Harrisburg, and so the intention was to go from Beaver to Erie, as we understood the Erie railroad was running, and go to Harrisburg; but when we got to Beaver we found that the road running to Erie was stopped also, then General Latta and the Assistant Adjutant General and myself took a carriage and drove over to Allegheny City, and found that the train was running on the West Penn and took that train, and got to Harrisburg.
Q. The purpose in coming to Harrisburg was to collect more troops?
A. The communications were uncertain, and there was no way to get ammunition or orders to these troops.
At this point the committee adjourned until Monday afternoon, at two o'clock.
Harrisburg, Monday, March, 11, 1878.