. . . about two days after said company had left said Cedar City, Lieutenant-Colonel I.C. height expressed in my presence, a desire that said company might be permitted to pass on their way in peace; but afterward he told me that he had orders from headquarters to kill all of said company of emigrants except the little children; I do not know whether said headquarters meant the Regimental Headquarters at Parowan, or the Headquarters of the Commander-in-chief at Salt Lake City . . . after the fight had been going on for three or four days, a messenger from Major Lee reached Cedar City, who stated that the fight had not been altogether successful, upon which Lieutenant-Colonel height ordered out of a re-enforcement; at this time I was ordered out by Captain John M. Higbee, who ordered me to muster, ‘armed and equipped as the law directs it;’ it was a matter of life or death to me to muster or not, and I mustered with the reenforcing troops; it was at this time that Lieutenant-Colonel Haight said to me that it was the orders from headquarters that all but the little children of said company were to be killed; said Haight had at that time just returned from headquarters at Parowan, where a military council had been held . . . at the time of the firing of the first volley I discharged my piece; I did not fire afterward, though several subsequent volleys were fired; after the first fire was delivered I at once set about saving the children; I commenced to gather the children before the firing had ceased . . . on the evening of the massacre, Colonel W.H. dame and Lieutenant I.C. Haight came to Hamblin’s, where I had the said children and fell into a dispute, in the course of which aid Haight told Colonel Dame, that, if he was going to report the killing of said emigrants, he should not have ordered it done . . .