Q. Of your own knowledge?
A. I don't think any troops did return, as bodies, to Philadelphia. Scattered, straggling men did, but no body of troops returned to Philadelphia. I do not think that the straggling in the National Guard was equal to what it is sometimes.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. Do you approve of General Brown's course, in disbanding his regiments at Pittsburgh?
A. If it be a fact that General Brown did give these troops directions to leave, it was a most outrageous breach of everything a good soldier ought to have done. I believe those troops there could have held that place until now.
By Mr. Lindsey:
Q. I understand you to say that it is your judgment that those troops might have held that place?
A. I think so.
Q. Do you know anything as to the reasons that induced General Brown to disband those two regiments?
A. Haven't the most distant idea. I don't even know that it is a fact, except as I have seen it alleged in the newspapers.