exandria, McMinnville, or Hubbard's Cove and Manchester, and also one that leads by Tracy City to Cowan.

Cross-examination by the JUDGE-ADVOCATE:

Question. Do you say you were shut off from supplies in Nashville some fifty days? Did your forces suffer any during that time?

Only inconvenience; they suffered no want.

Question. The organization of these guerrilla bands that you speak of was subsequent to the invasion of Kentucky by Bragg?

Yes, sir.

Question. At what time was it that Breckinridge came over to take the command you speak of?

I cannot give you the exact date, but it was between the 4th and 21st of October. The Governor had offered opportunities to the people throughout Tennessee to enlist and select their own companies and organizations, and large numbers enrolled themselves. General Bragg refused to recognize the authority of the Governor or the propriety of the order, and ordered the troops to be organized into organizations already existing, except such regiments as were full. They disbanded all the forces here except two regiments.

Question. At what time did Bragg cross from Chattanooga and Harrison with his invading army?

In the middle of August.

Question. Where were you at the time?

At Columbia.

Question. Bragg marched up the Sequatchie Valley through Dunlap and Pikeville to Sparta. Was it known at the time he crossed that that would be the line he would take?

When he marched to Sparta he had not determined whether he would attack Nashville or march into Kentucky. He was contending against the programme laid out for him by Governor Harris. He approached Nashville in consequence of the pressure brought on him by Governor Harris. The governor was opposed to his marching into Kentucky, and had induced President Davis to send Bragg into Tennessee to retake Nashville. That is one reason why General Bragg threw a portion of his forces along the line of the Chattanooga and Nashville Railroad.

Question. What I asked you was whether it was known to you or to the more intelligent officers at the time of crossing the Tennessee River that Bragg would take that line up through Dunlap, Pikeville, and Sparta, and whether it was anticipated that that would be his line of march?

It was not known to me. I was aware of his crossing the river and the force he had, and it was presumed that he would go to Pikeville, from the fact that a portion of his cavalry came so low down the Sequatchie Valley.

Question. Did not his condition as to supplies and transportation, &c., force him up the Sequatchie Valley through Pikeville and Sparta?

That must have had an influence upon his march, but at the same time he had placed himself in a condition where there was no water-between Sparta and Alexandria. His forces were almost demoralized by the hardships of the march.

By General DANA:

Question. With what force did Bragg cross the Tennessee River?

Sixty thousand.

Question. Do you know anything of the condition of Bragg's army as to supplies when he crossed?

Yes, sir.