A. Why we pursued Brinton?
Q. Yes.
A. My understanding was, that he was to go back and form a junction with Colonel Guthrie, and march into the city of Pittsburgh.
Q. Was that your understanding before you left the head-quarters of General Latta?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Do you know how you got that impression?
A. By being in consultation with the Adjutant General and the balance of the staff during the entire night.
Q. And conversation?
A. Yes, sir; we were consulting together, of course, about the most feasible means or measures—what to do with this exigency there. If you remember, we were but a handful of men ourselves, and there all night long. Could not get our troops into Pittsburgh, wires were cut, lines of railroad were stopped, and our great anxiety was to get as many troops as possible into the city to protect the city. The idea was, this first division would make a junction—that the Fourteenth and Nineteenth regiments having disbanded, you might say virtually disbanded. Having left the Eighteenth regiment at three o'clock in the morning, it was our desire to get the First division form a junction with the Eighteenth regiment, and come into the city to protect property which was then on fire.
Q. Where did Brinton say he was going to when he was asked to return, and refused to?