A. Not from the position I was. The parties may have been mistaken in regard to where they got their order.
Q. When they were ordered to charge bayonets, what was the command given to charge bayonets?
A. As I spoke before, the command was given, that I could hear the command but couldn't hear what was said to the troops. It was given to two companies in a low tone of voice, but what I understood to be "charge bayonets," and a charge bayonets was immediately made after this order. It was in a low tone of voice.
Q. Not as a military officer ought to give a command?
A. Not as I would suppose a military officer should give a command. I am not posted in regard to how they should give it.
Q. He didn't say it as though he meant business?
A. It looked very much like it.
Q. He gave it in a low tone of voice?
A. Just gave it in a low tone of voice to those two companies—it was a command to those two companies.
Q. When he gave the command fire, did he speak it distinctly as though he meant exactly what he said?