A. A very short distance.
Q. Did they drive them as long as they continued to charge?
A. Yes; they cleared the tracks.
Q. And drove them as far as they desired to?
A. I presume so, just at that time. Quite a number of the crowd—several of them—tried to take the muskets out of the hands of the soldiers.
Q. How did the firing by the militia commence—was it one shot—one shot or a volley?
A. One shot, and then another shot, and then two or three shots every second.
Q. A rattling volley?
A. Yes.
Q. Was it regular?