Question. What was the strength of Kirby Smith's force at that time?

I could give no definite information. It was variously estimated at from 12,000 to 20,000; perhaps as high as 30,000.

Question. What estimate did General Nelson place upon it?

I am not sure that I can give that. My impression is that it was in the neighborhood of 20,000 to 25,000. I think, perhaps, that some of the official papers of General Nelson's would show what estimate he placed upon it. I think there are official papers published in reference to the battle that give his estimate.

Question. What orders did General Nelson give in regard to the removal of the women and children from Louisville during the invasion by Bragg?

General Nelson gave orders for the women and children to be removed from Louisville within the space of twenty-four or forty-eight hours. If they were not removed within that time they were not to be allowed to go.

Question. Did the women and children comply with that order?

Large numbers of them did; but what proportion of the women and children in the city complied I could not tell. Large numbers went and large numbers remained.

Question. Was there any panic or scare among the military men here for the safety of Louisville during the invasion of Bragg?

I do not think there was a panic among the military men, but there was serious apprehension. There was a very great panic among the citizens, and of course some officers and some soldiers participated in the panic, but not, I think, generally. A deep-settled apprehension rested upon them, but not in the form of a panic.

Commission adjourned to meet January 14,1 at 10 o'clock a.m.

LOUISVILLE, January 24, [?] 1863.

Captain JONES' examination continued, as follows:

By the JUDGE-ADVOCATE:

Question. Captain, have you been able to comply with the order of the Commission with reference to the amending of your report?

I have not been able to comply with it fully, as that is impossible. I have made a sort of supplementary report, that will show, as nearly as the records will furnish, the data for what I supposed to be the object of the order. I have made a report of the place and date of capture as far as I could from the data I have had before me in my books of record, and when it was not possible to give the date of capture, the date of the shipment of prisoners from this point, beginning with those shipped previous to the 12th of November and then those between the 12th and 18th of November, and so on up to the 14th of January, including some forty-one counties.

Question. State, if you please, what number of prisoners out of those you report were captured subsequent to the battle of Perryville.

I could not do that with certainty. This report shows those that were sent from this point subsequent to the battle of Perryville, but I could not state from the records the exact number; I could only give my own impressions as to the proportion of those who were captured subsequent to the battle of Perryville. By an examination of the first book of record that I attempted to keep on taking charge of the prisoners, the mode in which it was kept and the objects which I had in view, the reasons will appear why I have not been able to comply with the order. To the 12th of November the record simply shows the company and regiment and the time of shipment. I received the attestation-to make it somewhat official and binding upon the Confederate authorities-of the Confederate officers of the regiments, where, it was possible to obtain it, to which the prisoners belonged; and where they had no officer of the regiment, then a commissioned officer of the State in which the prisoners volunteered; in some few instances the signature of the party himself. For instance, beginning with the first, as I stated to the court, the Third Georgia Regiment, captured at New Haven. I have the attestation of the parole of Colonel Crawford, who commanded the regiment. That was previous to the battle of Perryville. Some 270 or 280, an entire regiment, was captured at New Haven.