Q. And suppress the riot?
A. And suppress the riot.
By Mr. Means:
Q. And the railroad property?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. I would like you to be a little more explicit—a little more definite in regard to these rations. When you intended to transport the rations to these troops, and how you intended to get them there, and if you intended to get them there at all?
A. In the first place, we didn't know where the first division were retreating to. We understood that they had left the round-house, and were going north. We then could have made—did make—some arrangements to send rations to them, as I said before in my testimony.
Q. What arrangements did you make—put them on cars, or take them by wagons—how did you intend to transport them over there?
A. If he had come back south of the Allegheny, we would have sent them out the West Pennsylvania road—if he had made a junction with Guthrie, as we wanted.
Q. As who wanted?