Q. He was delivering the orders of the Adjutant General, as you understood?
A. Yes. That is what he was doing. That is what took me there. The Adjutant General directed me to accompany Colonel Norris. He was going on official business.
Q. We want to get at what Colonel Norris said to General Brinton?
A. That the Adjutant General directed him to turn his command back and form a junction with Colonel Guthrie, of the Eighteenth regiment, at or near Torrens.
Q. Did you return with Colonel Norris?
A. I did; yes, sir.
Q. To the Monongahela house?
A. To the Union Depot hotel.
Q. What time did you go back to the Union Depot hotel?
A. As I told you before, I don't remember anything about time; but when I got back there—when we got out of the carriage—we started upstairs to the room which the Adjutant General occupied, and was then informed that they had changed the head-quarters from the Union Depot hotel to the Monongahela house. I suppose that might have been one o'clock.