regiments were much reduced in number, but their conscription had gone on, and I could not form any estimate of their number; they varied.

Question. Has not experience taught you that if scouts and deserters state the number to be 60,000 or 70,000 it is probably half that number?

It is a natural impression; but I was satisfied that Bragg had the Corinth army with, him a few detachments under Breckinridge.

Question. You proposed attacking the enemy at Glasgow. Did you suppose they had 60,000 or 70,000 men?

I did not suppose they had 60,000 men at Glasgow, but I naturally supposed that in the face of General Buell's army, of which the Confederate knew, they would not attempt to invade Kentucky except with a very large force.

Question. Was not your calculation and that of the officer generally based upon that fact - that he would not dare to invade Kentucky with that number?

I think not. My impression was that Bragg had crossed with seventy regiments and that Withers had crossed with larger forces.

Question. Do you remember saying to Lew. Campbell, of Ohio, at Bowling Green, that there were only 25,000 ragged rascals, and that you thought it time to go and whip them?

I think I never made such a remark.

Question. Is your recollection of that impression such as would justify such a remark?

It is not. With different people coming in with different stories the matter was discussed, but I never believed their army was as small as that.

Question. You say that you were impressed with the belief that Bragg would not invade Kentucky in the face of General Buell's army, and that he would not undertake it with less than 60,000 or 70,000 men?

That is my impression at that time.

Question. If General Bragg anticipated an uprising in Kentucky and assistant from Kirby Smith in that quarter, would it not have been more available for him to have taken 30,000 rather than 60,000 or 70,000; that is, in reference to his supplies?

Of course it would. He could then have moved with more celerity.

Question. If the enemy's number was as your estimate makes it, how do you account for the evacuation of so strong a place as Munfordville at your approach?

I do not know what the objects of the enemy were at that time. I merely formed my opinion from information gained since; but at that time I thought certainly that the enemy had as many as General Buell had, and it was of rations on their part that took them from Munfordville.

Question. In that connection can you account for the fact that an army of that size, after forming a junction with Kirby Smith, declined to fight at Harrodsburg or at Dick Robinson?

That is something. I cannot understand why they did not fight there, where I expected them to fight; I cannot account for it; but General Buell's army was much increased in strength, and they may have known that we outnumbered them. I believe that with all the re-enforcements they got in Kentucky our army outnumbered them.

Question. What is your estimate, from all the information you obtained, of Kirby Smith's forces?