A. There might have been twenty or thirty. I really don't recollect. I knew at the time. It has passed my memory. Something near that. They were in the center of these—fetched them over with music.
Q. What kind of music did they have?
A. Drum and fife, I think it was.
Q. How large a crowd was surrounding the soldiers?
A. There was not so many surrounding them as they came over. There was a kind of square formed, and the balance was running loose around.
Q. What class of men?
A. Most of them were half grown boys and negroes.
Q. Who carried the arms?
A. Some few boys carried some of the soldier's arms, and the rest the soldiers carried themselves.
Q. Did you try to prevent them going through the gates when they came back?