Q. Nor Doctor Donnelly's command?
A. I think Doctor Donnelly's command went in good faith, to do what they could—they were not able.
Q. You said you were utterly hostile to all those parties in their efforts?
A. I said I was hostile to their plan of operations, because I didn't think it was called for at the time it was done, because I believed it would end in disaster, which it did.
Q. Did you make any effort to have any conference with these parties to agree on some plan that would be effected?
A. No, sir; they went to work independent of me, and had called out the troops without consulting me at all. I was at my office all night waiting if anything would occur, and I knew nothing of this movement to call troops out until I saw the dispatches on Friday morning.
Q. Do I understand you that because they did not consult you, you put yourself in hostility to all these parties?
A. If you understand me that way, you understand me entirely wrong.
Q. I want to know that?
A. I have time and again here to-day stated that I was utterly hostile to their plan of operations, and that I had nothing to do with them, because I knew I would be powerless with these men.