Joseph Brown,
Brigadier General commanding Sixth Division N.G.P.
Received July 28, 1877, at 9.30, A.M.
I sent a verbal message to ask General Brown whether he thought it was his duty to wait until the posse comitatus was completely driven from the ground. If his duty was merely to bury the dead, we could get somebody to do that as well as him.
Q. This is dated the 28th?
A. It was after any actual destruction of property, and this railroad property was still held by the rioters, and they wouldn't allow trains to move.
By Mr. Larrabee:
Q. It was a week after the Saturday?
A. It was just a week. The Governor hadn't arrived with his troops, and didn't arrive until some days afterwards—the next week.
Q. What troops did General Brown have under his control?
A. General Brown had under his control the Fourteenth regiment and the Eighteenth regiment and the Nineteenth regiment, Pennsylvania National Guards, all raised in and about this place.