A. I was a very short distance from that little watch-house at Twenty-eighth street, at the foot of the hill—the base of the hill. Perhaps twenty-five yards from where the company was.
Q. In full view of what was going on?
A. Yes; Colonel Gray, I heard him get the order from General Brown to send a company down to support Breck's battery. He turned around and ordered me to take my company out, and also ordered another captain to report to me, and we went down the hill and supported the battery.
Q. The battery was near the crossing at that time?
A. Yes; very near the crossing.
Q. What did you see as General Brinton came up the track? Were there any deputies in advance of them?
A. Yes; the sheriff and his posse was there, and General Pearson, I believe.
Q. State the occurrence as you saw it, just immediately preceding and including the firing on the mob?
A. There was a company came up the track—at least one company, I say—there were, perhaps, two. They came up company front. The regiment—the First Pennsylvania regiment, I believe—came up by flank, the sheriff in front. The railroad came this way [indicating] and they met the troops and the sheriff.
Q. Advanced to meet them part way?