Q. Tell me how you did that?
A. By forming in line and moving them back down the street, back of the crossing.
Q. Threw your companies across the street, and across the railroad track, and drawing them down Twenty-eighth street?
A. Yes; across over the railroad track, and passed on back to where these brick houses came up. Part of the column was there, the other was across the other way. Therefore we had them all on this side, except what was on the hill.
Q. In your efforts to keep the crossing clear, what course did you pursue?
A. Just merely to march—whenever I would see a few men on the track, I would move these troops across there.
Q. March across company front?
A. Yes; division front, and clear the track off.
Q. Then march back?
A. March the other side of the track again—up on the track all the time. They were on the track next to the hill—they were in line from this brick building across all the way, and whenever they would get in the rear of the soldiers they would fall back.