expressed the opinion that the enemy ought to have been attacked at certain points as hey invaded Kentucky. Can you give us the names of these officers?

Major General Alexander McDowell, McCook, General Schoepf, General Mitchell,and General Fry. From the colonels with whom I talked I never heard a dissenting voice.

Question. State to the Commission, if you please, what expression of opinion you heard from Major-General McCook upon the movements of General Buell's army and General Buell's cavalry capacity as a commander.

While the troops were at Pelham I had a conversation with General McCook in relation to the movements then going on. I remember his words. He was sitting beside me in General Schoepf's quarters, and he brought his hand down with considerable force on my knee. "Don Carlos won't dot," said he; "he won't do." Said I, "General, there is considerable feeling in the army on the subject." "O," said he, "George Thomas is the man, and we must have him." I think General Buell was in the same building at the time, in the other part of the house, having a conversation with General Crittenden. I remember that conversation with more distinctness from the peculiarity of the language used by General McCook.

By General TYLER:

Question. You say General Bragg's army passed out of the Cumberland Mountains at Pikeville; was it in General Buell's power to have concentrated force enough at or near that point to have resisted successfully Bragg's advance or to have whipped him?

From what I have heard of the topography of the country and the scarcity of water I do not think that General Buell could have massed his troops near that point and given Bragg battle without a great deal of suffering on account of the scarcity of water. My impression is that he could have concentrated all the forces under his command between that point and McMinnville or Sparta and given General Bragg battle.

Question. Did not Bragg with his whole army passe over that ground and find a supply of water?

I have no doubt but what he did, though his army was stretched out very much. The understanding in our army was that there was a great scarcity of water; in fact I was informed by some general officer who one made a little campaign up there that it was almost impossible to subsist troops there and to keep then there for any length of time on account of the scarcity of water. There was no water to be had. A portion of our troops who attempted to go up there were withdrawn on account of the scarcity of water.

By General DANA:

Question. What was the name of the young man who gave the information at General Schoepf's quarters in Nashville as to the strength of the rebel army when they debouched from the Sequatchie Valley at or near Pikeville and who fixed it at 37,000 or 38,000?

His name was Pratt.

Question. What was supposed in the army to be the reason why General Buell did not wish his army to fight that of the rebel Bragg?

Various reasons were assigned. Some ascribed it to timidity, some to prudence. There were all sorts or reasons; some went so far as to impugn the loyalty of General Beull. For myself I never doubted his loyalty, though I have heard considerable said on that point - that General Beull did not desire to whip Bragg.

Question. On account of hid disloyalty?

Yes; I have heard charges of disloyalty against him.

Question. Were these charges of disloyalty made against General Buell by officers in high rank?

I have heard officers of the rank of brigadier-general, colonels, and lieutenant-colonels charge General Buell with disloyalty.