Nothing prevented me from moving. I think it was late on that day we moved. I recollect posting my troops there and of going to ascertain the locality, but could not find General Gilbert, but I found General Mitchell, who was then on the left of General Gilbert's corps, and my troops and Rousseau's division joined no with Mitchell's.

Question. You have spoken in your direct evidence of a road which you call the Dicksville and Springfield road; where does that road come into the Perryville and Springfield road?

I do not know the exact point on the road. There are a great many lines leading back and forth, but my impression is that it comes out near the road where there is a hospital. A man named Bottom lives there, but I cannot state the exact point, because the fences were considerably torn down, and I always rode in a direct direction.

Question. Was the country between the Perryville and Mackville road and the Perryville and Springfield road more practicable than the country bordering on Chaplin River?

Yes; it was. It was a country over which we could have moved.

Question. Did the movement which you proposed to make on the night of the 8th actually take place while you were at my headquarters?

It actually took place when I was at your headquarters and which I was on my way back.

Question. Did you not think that perhaps what you considered my refusal to give you an additional force referred to the disposition of the troops for the following day?

I did not understand it so.

Question. If that movement was actually being made while you were requesting troops, what would have been the necessity for troops or could they have been on the ground in time?

Yes, sir. I dispatched an aide-de-camp from your headquarters.

By the PRESIDENT:

Question. I understand, the, that the movement was executed by your orders?

Yes, sir.

By General BUELL:

Question. Did the result prove that the additional forces were necessary?

No, sir; because the enemy retreated.

Question. You have stated that I directed you to retreat by a certain road. Did you understand that I spoke of the retreat of the army or of your portion of it?

Only of my corps, if I was compelled to fall back on the Springfield road. I had no idea that the other portion of the army were going to fall back.

Question. Were you during the march from Louisville to Perryville kept in constant communication with the rest of the army and my headquarters?

Yes, sir; as constantly as it was possible to be. I dispatched couriers, who usually found you at you headquarters. On several occasions you wrote to me to have couriers at you headquarters, but I believe that every available and efficient order you have reached me. My orderlies, when I directed them to your headquarters, would go to where they believed you were. Once they missed your headquarters when I wa at Bloomfield.