Q. While you were acting as volunteer aid?
A. You don't want me to tell everything I know?
Q. No, sir; my question is, you did what he directed you to do?
A. Everything, of course.
Q. That was all?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. You did not assume to do anything on your own responsibility?
A. No, sir.
Q. Were you a member of the National Guard at that time?
A. I was not. I had been a major on the staff of General Pearson.