A. I don't know. I couldn't see from where I was anything, except the illumination in the sky.
Q. Nor how many men were engaged in the burning?
A. No; on Liberty street and the street—I don't know the number of it—which would have run through the depot had it been prolonged—we could see men marching up and down that street, and could hear them giving commands along Penn street, which ran parallel with Liberty street, and we could see wagon loads of men coming in all the time.
Q. Did you send out any scouts?
A. I sent out two men of the Hutchinson battery, but they never returned. They said they would carry a dispatch to General Latta, and I wrote a note, but never heard of them afterwards. This scout returned, whose idea was that there were a great many, but he couldn't tell anything more than that, as he walked through the crowd. He could not tell whether there were five thousand or twenty thousand in the city—he could only see the street they were in. I thought if he could get back General Pearson might.
Q. You didn't deem it safe to undertake to attack the crowd during the night?
A. I thought I would be superseding my orders if I attempted it. I was ordered to remain there. At no time was I in command in Pittsburgh.
Q. In the absence of General Pearson, you were the highest in rank, or the senior general, were you not?
A. Yes; but I was ordered by him to remain where I was. It was not left discretionary with me.
By Senator Yutzy: