A. He says "they are not there." Then I went back home again in the
street cars, and I see a great mob making raids on the bonds for
whisky--anything they could find--nearly opposite the street car where
I was in. I went home. About twelve o'clock I went to the depot again.
I thought it was the best thing for me to see where these boys are.
Q. The Hussars?
A. Yes. I went out with one of my men to find out where they were. I
saw General Howard, of the Fourteenth regiment, right at the gate where
the train comes in. I went to him. Says I, "Do you know anything about
the Black Hussars." Says he, "Captain, I don't." Says I, "Are they in
the round-house." Says he, "I don't know anything about it." I went out
over where the ammunition was, and didn't see anybody except two or
three watchmen around with lanterns. I ask them where they were, and
they said they didn't know, that they must be in the round-house. I
couldn't believe it, because I know Colonel Clines ain't going to block
himself up in a cage. Says I, "If I can't find them, there is no use
for me to go out in the round-house." I went home again, and couldn't
get any satisfaction. All at once, Sergeant Wilder, from Philadelphia,
orderly sergeant of the company of Black Hussars, about half-past two
o'clock in the morning, I was sitting on the bed, and he asked some
policeman where my house was, and he told him he didn't know. Everybody
knows me, where my house is, especially policemen, and he says he
didn't know where Captain Gallisath lived. He passed my house two or
three times before he could find it. All at once, he asked somebody,
and they told him, and he rang the bell, and I was sitting on the bed.
I was not going to undress until I heard some news. A darkey, he showed
him the road. He came up and told me the whole thing as it stands. Says
he, "We are in the Union depot, and I don't know how to get out." I got
all my boys up, and said they should throw out every stitch of clothes
they had in their possession. I went out and took them all out in two
squads over the hill. They couldn't get through Liberty street.
Q. You gave them citizens' clothes?
A. All my own and all my men's.
Q. For the Hussars to go out in disguise?
A. Yes; I kept them there for three days at my house.
Q. How many of them?
A. There was sixteen or seventeen. I think there was seventeen. I kept
them there until I got word from General Brinton, and I took them over
to the West Penn road, and sent them home. General Pearson, I suppose,
gave them a pass. The Black Hussars were on the road to Philadelphia,
and were telegraphed to come back to the junction again.
By Mr. Larrabee:
Q. There were sixteen or seventeen?
A. Yes.
Q. Did they have arms?
A. Nothing but sabers.
Q. Where were their guns?
A. They had none.
Q. Did they have guns when they came in from Philadelphia?
A. Nothing at all but sabers.
Q. They were placed in the Union depot to guard the ammunition, Captain
Clines at the head?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Was that all that came there Saturday--Saturday afternoon--sixteen
in number?
A. That is all they had, seventeen--I suppose it was seventeen--I had
them in my house. They had nothing but sabers. They had no carbines nor
pistols nor anything.
Q. Where did they leave the ammunition when they came out?
A. The ammunition was at the same place still--and burned up too.
Q. In the Union depot?
A. That is the report that I heard afterwards, that it was set afire on
Sunday.
Q. They didn't bring the ammunition out with them?
A. General Brinton gave Captain Clines orders to take charge of the
ammunition, so they could ship it to the front, but they never came
back again, the Philadelphia troops.
Q. General Brinton didn't come back again?
A. No; they were up in the round-house, and Sunday morning went away to
the other side of the river.
Q. Captain Clines left the ammunition in the depot?
A. The understanding was, that they were cut off from General Brinton,
and nobody knew the ammunition was in there, except himself and his
boys.
Q. Do you know whether he left it there in the depot or not?
A. I am very well satisfied he couldn't take it away. I heard the
cartridges cracking around there on Sunday when they burned up. General
Brinton had no ammunition, whatever, when he was cut off, and he
couldn't get none--not what he brought from Philadelphia.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. Did Captain Clines and his command carry anything away from there?
A. They left their sabers there when I took them up the hill, but they
got them back afterwards, and I shipped them to Philadelphia my own
self.
Q. How far do you live from Union depot?
A. Three squares and a half.
Q. What street?
A. Diamond.
Q. How many people were there along Diamond street when you took these
clothes out?
A. Nobody--everything quiet.
Q. Couldn't these Black Hussars have marched out and down to your
house?
A. They couldn't march from Union depot on Liberty street, they had to
go around the hill and over the Pan-Handle road by the tunnel and back
here--that is where the nigger took them around.
Q. In citizens dress?
A. I sent the clothes out. They went in two squads. We hadn't so many
clothes to dress them all at once, the mob was waiting for them to come
out.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. You are a military man, and have had a great deal of experience in
the army. In your opinion, could these sixteen men have cut their way
out with their sabers?
A. No, sir; they couldn't.
Q. Why not?
A. I couldn't see how. They didn't know the road, nor anything. They
were strangers.
Q. If they had had a guide?
A. I don't see how they could do it with sabers, when the mob was
standing outside with stones and pistols. What did them sixteen men
want to do with sabers.
Q. Was there a large crowd?
A. There was a big crowd there. They couldn't, I am satisfied. I
wouldn't have risked it, and I wouldn't be afraid if I were acquainted
in the city, and know my road.