Q. What was the nature of that insult?
A. He could have easily passed my company. We were in line, and he insisted on pushing me out of his road into the ranks. And I asked him if he couldn't go by without breaking the company up, and he turned around and made use of a very impertinent answer. He was a great big fellow.
Q. Did you learn his name?
A. No.
Q. Or rank?
A. He was an officer, I know. He broke the left of my company up. He was a man that weighed two hundred and sixty, and was six feet two or three inches high. He was a very fine large man, but a very great blackguard, none the less. There seemed to be some spite against the soldiers out there on the part of everybody.
Silas W. Pettit, sworn:
By Mr. Lindsey:
Q. State your rank in the militia, in July last?