Q. Would not your force have added to the strength of their force if you had re-inforced them?
A. We did not receive any such orders to relieve them.
Q. Who was in chief command during all this time of your troops?
A. General Pearson was chief in command of the round-house until I found out after dark some time that he had left.
Q. You found he had left? Had you any superior officer present then?
A. Nobody except General Brinton.
Q. Did you receive any orders from him?
A. No, sir.
Q. And if he had been disposed to give you orders——
A. I do not know whether he could have got out or not. There was no trouble until after he fired and killed those citizens. Then there was a great feeling against him, of course.