By Mr. Means:
Q. What I want to get at is this: If your regiment was disbanded at the Union depot; and after that, did you not have command of them as a regiment?
A. Well, sir, I dismissed my regiment at the Union depot. I also sent word to the companies who had to leave the city—I had four companies—that they were perfectly safe, and they better not go away till morning.
Q. What did they do with their arms, when you dismissed them?
A. They took them home, except one company; they could not get away that night, and stayed there. At ten the next day, I had three companies that went out on the eleven o'clock train.
By Mr. Means:
Q. The companies that left lived in the rural districts; they took their arms with them to their homes?
A. I think they all did, so far as I know, except one company.
Q. And they remained in the city?
A. That company was a home company, and remained at the Union depot until ten o'clock next day, before it left.