Answer—No.
Question from Lieut.-Col. Booker—Did you see that we were outflanked to the right?
Answer—No, I believe it was the reserve. I could not see the extreme right.
Question from the Court—On what do you ground your belief that they were not outflanked on the right?
Answer—Principally on the statements of the officers and men who were out skirmishing on the right.
Question from Lieut.-Col. Booker—Did you notice men coming down the hill to our front at a double, in front of the reserves, crying "Cavalry"?
Answer—No.
Question from the Court—When three companies of the Thirteenth were sent out to relieve the Queen's Own, had the movement been executed before the retreat was sounded?
Answer—No, so far as my knowledge extends. Both lines of skirmishers,
Rifles and Thirteenth, came in together.
Question from Lieut.-Col. Booker—Was the endeavor made to bring the men out of square into column?