Question. Please state if you were with the army in its pursuit of Bragg when he invaded Kentucky and what you know of the force of the rebels previous to your arrival at Munfordville.

I was with the Army of the Ohio in pursuit of the army led by Bragg when he invaded Kentucky, and all the information which I obtained from various sources satisfied me that the army led by General Bragg into Kentucky did not exceed 35,000 men.

Question. Previous to your arrival at Nashville, general, tell the Commission where,and what was the situation about the line the time Bragg left Chattanooga, if you know.

For some tenn or twelve days previous to the date of the commencement of the concentration of the army at Nashville I was stationed in the vicinity of McMinnville. I do not know the date of Bragg's leaving Chattanooga.

Question. State, if you please, whether at that time the railway from McMinnville to Tullahoma and from Tullahoma to Nashville was in operation.

It was during the greater part of the time; there were occasional interruptions.

Question. What is the character of the road and what was is condition at the time from Murfreesborough to Woodbury and from Woodbury to McMinnville?

I did not travel the usually followed road, but I know from reports that troops were constantly passing over from McMinnville to Woodbury, and the inference is that the road was good. There is an

ordinary from Woodbury to Murfreesborough, which I traveled over. I have no positive knowledge of the road from McMinnville to Woodbury.

Question. Do you know what the character of the road is from McMinnville to Spencer and from Spencer to Pikeville?

I do not know; I never marched over that road.

Question. What is your opinion, as a military man,as to the proposition to attack Bragg's amy as he debouched from the Sequatchie Valley and descended from the Cumberland Mountains with the prospect of success?

Had the proposition been left to me I never would have attacked General Bragg in the Sequatchie Valley.

Question. Where would the proper place to attack him have been?

That would turn a great deal upon the condition of supplies. I have always entertained the opinion that if the supplies had warranted it might have been judicious, had Bragg crossed the Cumberland River at all, in the neighborhood of Sparta; that would turn, however, upon the extent of supplies, which it is important for a military man to consider among the elements entering into such a movement. If the state of supplies had warranted if, after the army was concentrated at Murfreesborough, I believe General Bragg's army could have been beaten in the neighborhood of Sparta.

Question. Did you know, whether the army of General Buell was concentrated for a suppose of that sort and why it was not carried out?

I do not know that it was so concentrated or that such an arrangement or movement entered into General Buell's combinations. I had not seen General Buell from about the 15th of July, when I separated from him at Hunstville, till I meet him in Nashville on the 6th of September. Had it been his intention he did not communicate it to me, for I had no personal, only telegraphic, communications and ordinary dispatches; even had I been with him I do not know that he would have communicated such a design to me.

Question. Upon what other points, in marching from McMinnville to Nashville and to Munfordville, would your judgment indicate General