Question. Did Bragg's army after it passed the Tennessee River receive any reinforcements from Kirby Smith?

My information led me to the conclusion then, and I now entertain the same conviction, that General Bragg did not receive any material re-enforcements to the army he led across the Tennessee River and into Kentucky by the way of Tompkinsville till he formed a junction in Central Kentucky with Marshall's, Smith's, and Stevenson's forces.

Question. I have alluded to your testimony that you stated Bragg's army was at Glasgow on Monday, 15th.

I stated in answer to the question that the advance of Bragg's army left or commenced to leave.

Question. What proportion of General Buell's army was engaged with the enemy at the battle of Perryville?

It is difficult to say what proportion was engaged. I know about the force that was upon the ground and I have some knowledge of how that force was employed. Two divisions of General McCook's corps, as it was called, were most actively engaged in the battle of Chaplin Hills, and, according to my understanding, did the principal part of the fighting. As I have always understood, one brigade from General Gilbert's corps was detached to re-enforce General McCook. A considerable part of General Gilbert's corps were engaged in one way and another in the battle, but I do not think any serious work was done by it. Certainly it could not be said it was hotly engaged, and its casualties, as compared with the whole number of the division, would indicate this opinion to be correct. I am quite sure that only one brigade of Crittenden's corps, as it was called, fired a shot, and that was a brigade of my own division.

Question. Did you know or hear of any movement made by General Buell's army on the night of the battle or the next morning or during the next day to renew the battle or to find the enemy?

I cannot say I knew or heard of any movement taking place either that night, next morning, or the next day that could properly be called an effort to renew the battle on the part of the Army of the Ohio. Some movements were ordered in the corps to which my division was attached for an advance toward Perryville during the morning of the 9th, but such advance did not take place until after it was known that the enemy had evacuated the position inland around Perryville, and in fact till I had been in the suburbs of the place myself. But in all this I wish to be understood as speaking of what I saw and heard, and could not of course pretend to give evidence of the moments of the whole body of troops assembled in the vicinity of Perryville.

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Question. State as nearly as you can the disposal General Buell had made of his army about the time Bragg crossed the Tennessee to invade Kentucky. What point of occupation marked his left and what his right and how long prior to the movement of Bragg had his army held such a position?

The principal part of the troops of the Army of the Ohio were disposed, according to my recollection, at the time suggested in the question, from Nashville along the line of railway which leads from Nashville to Columbia and south as far as Athens, from Athens eastward by way which leads from Nashville to Columbia and south as far as Athens, from Athens eastward by way of Huntsville and Stevenson to Battle Creek. The troops of this army were also stationed along the line of railway leading from Nashville to Stevenson; also along the road leading from Tullahoma to McMinnvile, and some of them in the mountains and along the foot of the mountains from Decherd eastward as far as McMinnville. I think also about this time an expedition was made from the troops stationed at Battle Creek some distance up the Sequatchie Valley, but how far I never was informed. The troops at McMinnville would be considered the farthest east, and those at Athens, Northern Alabama, farthest west.

Question. By whole order did General Buell march from Corinth toward Chattanooga, what was the object of the movement, and do you know whether the operation was left to his own discretion or prescribed by the order?

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