A. General Brinton's. He was in the room when I got this order. I read it to him, and, as the mob was very great, I said if you reach him first, give him this order, and if I reach him first, I will carry it with me.
E. DeC. Loud re-called:
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. On your retirement from the round-house, did you cover the retreat a part of the way?
A. I had the left of the line as long as there was any firing going on.
Q. Did you, on your march, see any policemen on the street?
A. I did.
Q. Tell us what you saw them do?
A. I saw, I suppose, at least fifteen or twenty-five of them standing on a kind of low porch that looked to me something like a station-house, or as if it might be, as we went out, and they seemed to make no effort to keep the peace whatever. They were standing there, and after we passed, I heard the crack of a pistol. I cannot say positively that they fired it; but they certainly made no effort whatever to preserve the peace there. They were in full uniform, too.