A. From General Pearson. I returned and saw General Pearson. The idea was to get more troops before they could do anything. We were ordered to lay by until during the morning of the next day, and go out to the outer depot—to this place where the rioters were supposed to be.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. What time was this?
A. This was along in the evening about five o'clock.
Q. What hour did you get the orders to remain at rest until morning?
A. About that same time—about four o'clock. We considered which would be the best way to get the upper hand of the rioters. I supposed they were in full force. About four o'clock, I suppose, I went out with the Fourth regiment, up through the city.
Q. About four o'clock in the evening?
A. Four o'clock in the morning—Saturday morning—and we occupied the ground immediately back of the depot.
Q. Of the Union depot?
A. No, sir; at this outer Twenty-eighth street crossing. We there met General Pearson, with Hutchinson's battery and the Nineteenth regiment, and I deployed them—placed the battery fronting on Twenty-eighth street and the regiment up on the side of the hill, in front of the Fourteenth regiment.