A. The first I knew of that was, I saw Brown two or three times during the night in citizens' clothes, and toward the early morning, but I had heard all along his troops had gone. The old gentleman was pretty well excited. He was going out and making promises, and coming back, and having interviews, and getting in among the fellows. The next day, Cap. Bigham, he was a pretty strong man, was in the room at the hotel, between nine and ten o'clock, and I said something pretty rough to Bigham, about the troops running away, and Bigham, like a good soldier, would … that he had done what he was told; he said these troops left there by order of General Brown.
Q. That was the first you knew of General Brown's order?
A. That is the first I ever heard.
Q. After General Pearson left, then General Brinton was the commanding officer, as I understand, and you learned that fact by and through General Pearson?
A. By and through General Pearson.
Q. That he had left him in command?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Did General Brinton know that the ammunition was at the Union depot?
A. O, yes.
Q. He knew it had been left there?