Q. And attempted to pull——
A. I heard parties say that if they would let them out in any way, they would be glad to do so. It was the crowd back of them that was holding them in. Others resisted.
Q. Did they try to pull the bayonets off the guns?
A. I saw them wrenching with the guns. Saw them wrenching the guns, and heard remarks made by different parties in front of the party charging bayonets that if they would give them room to get back they didn't want to interfere. I heard these remarks made from where I was.
Q. And the command to fire, you say, was given by captains?
A. I don't know about captains. I say officers of the Philadelphia companies that the word "fire" was given by.
Q. By officers of companies?
A. Company officers is what I say the word was given by.
Q. And not by field officers?
A. I wouldn't know that the field officers were with that regiment, but I knew from the position——