A. Some of the military. Mr. Cassatt, who arrived here on Friday, directed me to get two crews together, that General Brinton's command would clear the tracks, and that I could slip the trains out, and that everything, then, would go all right. Then General Brinton's command commenced to march, and the sheriff came up with about twenty members of his posse, and I urged him to hurry up and get there before the troops, and that if any of our men were there, I would talk to them, and perhaps prevent trouble. I went up. The crowd kept coming in on us all the way from the Union depot, so we took a large crowd up there. The crowd followed us up. We were so delayed in warning the crowd to get away that they came up close to us, and when we got to Twenty-eighth street, General Pearson was there, and the sheriff and his posse ahead of the military. The sheriff, I think, attempted to arrest one man who was very noisy, and then there was a general rumpus, and I was thrown back by the crowd and got in among the military companies, who had formed on Twenty-eighth street. They formed up and down on the north side, and up and down on the south side, and brought a company up between Then a man threw me back, and the company coming up the street allowed me to get in between. They went up, I suppose, to disperse the mob. Q. Who threw you back? A. I do not know; he was a great big man; he was a friend of mine, I know; it was not an attempt to hurt me. This company moved up, and dispersed the mob, and the command was given to charge bayonets, and put the bayonets between the people so as not to hurt them. Q. Who gave that command? A. I do not know. By Senator Reyburn: Q. The object was not to use force, but to try and press the crowd back? A. That is it. They were going to push them away. Then the crowd commenced cheering, and I saw two or three bayonets twisted off, and then a lot of stones were thrown at the military. General Pearson came back to me then, and said he was going to the office--was going to get more troops. He then went away. I could not get out. Then they commenced firing. Q. What time was that? A. About five o'clock on Saturday afternoon. I could not get out until the firing was all over and the crowd dispersed. By Senator Yutzy: Q. Were not shots fired from the crowd before the firing commenced? A. Yes; two shots were fired. I was near to the men. Q. Fired at the military? A. Yes; and stones came around and clouded the horizon. Q. Before there was any firing by the military? A. Yes, sir. Q. Was any command given to fire? A. No; all the officers I saw were begging the men not to fire. By Senator Yutzy: Q. When the soldiers went up they did not attempt to injure the crowd? Were any of the soldiers hit and wounded at that time, before the firing--before they attempted to fire? A. I saw two or three wounded right around me. Q. Before that firing began? A. Yes, sir.