By General DANA:

Question. There are issues on returns to citizens; what citizens were they made to?

The issues on the provision returns referred to are to citizens employed by the quartermaster's department and the subsistence department, or any department in the army which employs citizens and draws rations for either.

Question. Do you know whether any issues were made to citizens by Captain Little?

I do not, positively. It is not a part of his duty to make issues to citizens at Nashville.

Question. Do you know of any expenditure of subsistence stores for the aid or benefit of any citizens who were not employed by the United States, or contrabands who were under the protection of the United States?

Yes, sir. Issues were made to contrabands employed in the department and at work on the fortifications at Nashville.

Question. Were any sales of provisions made by any officers of the Government to any persons except to officers, to your knowledge?

No, sir; not to my knowledge.

Question. During the time that the Cumberland River was navigable was it possible to have amassed more subsistence on hand at Nashville than was actually amassed at that time?

In my opinion it would have been possible to have amassed more stores.

Question. Do you know of any instance of wastage of provisions by carelessness or exposure or from any other reason?

I do not.

Recross-examination by General BUELL:

Question. In expressing the opinion that it was possible to accumulate more stores at Nashville, does your mind recur to any case of neglect to make the best use of that means of accumulating supplies?

No, sir; it does not.

Question. Do you know whether orders were given for using all possible means, both by railroad and rivers (Cumberland and Green Rivers), to accumulate stores rapidly in Nashville?

I understand that such orders were given.

Question. Please read from your statement the number of rations on hand at the dates for which they were made.

Rations on hand August 31, 1862.

Rations of pork ....................................... .13,981

Rations of bacon ...................................... 31,474 1/3

Rations of salt beef ....................................19,360

Rations of fresh beef (including 25 head beef cattle,

estimated 800 pounds each net) ........................ 21,622 1/5

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Total number of rations of meat ..........................86,437 3/15

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Rations of flour .................................................190,355 10/22

Rations of hard bread ........................................332,797

Rations of corn meal ..............................................4,054

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Total number of bread rations .........527,786 10/22

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