own observation do you suppose it is possible to have thorough discipline in an army without it?

I suppose such a thing would be possible, but I am sure it is not practicable, and I am sure that it would tend greatly to induce discipline.

Question. Was our army at Perryville composed to a considerable extent of raw regiments, that had only been in service a very short time?

Yes, sir; there were a good many raw regiments in that army, who marched badly and fought worse.

Question. Were those regiments under my command or discipline in any manner prior to their ingraftment upon the old army?

General Buell personally could have had nothing to do with them. I had no knowledge as to whether they were even in his department or not up to the time they were added to the army.

Question. Do you suppose, general, that a lavish provision for troops in the way of clothing, provisions, and other comforts, and the occasional deprivation of those comforts unavoidably would have the tendency to produce a worse state of discipline than though they were habitually limited to what was absolutely necessary for them?

Of course it would.

Question. Will you state, if you please, whether that difference exists between the army of the Government and the rebel army probably in the most marked degree?

My information from rebel prisoners and others who pretended to know is that the rebels have never indulged the soldiers in lavish supplies. I suppose that difference between the two armies does exist. Our army, when it receives its regular rations, has a lavish supply.

Question. Were you stationed in North Alabama last summer, general?

I was; at Huntsville.

Question. Do you know anything of the policy that had been observed by our troops in that section of country toward the inhabitants? If so, please state what that policy was, or at least what the effect of this treatment was upon the temper of the people.

I know something of the practices of the soldiers there. General Mitchel had left before I reached Huntsville a few days. I can only say that between some of the regiments of General Mitchel's army and the people there was a very bitter feeling existing, and, as I before said, it was partly induced by the shooting of the soldiers by bushwhackers, and they in turn handled the people very roughly. I heard many well-authenticated incidents well calculated to excite a feeling among the inhabitants. I believe that many of the soldiers had been very much in the habit of taking everything they wanted and many things they did not want, such as men and women's and children's clothing, &c. I was informed by a loyal man there-and there were not many of them, in my judgment-that the course previously pursued had done great injury to the cause of the Government, and I have no doubt it was true. The people did not complain so much on account of what was taken from them as they did of the manner and the persons who did it. They seemed to give very freely to the officials, when it was demanded, whatever the Government required. The seemed to give very freely to the officials, when it was demanded, whatever the Government required. The complaint was soldiers and officers entered private residences and took out of them whatever they wanted-silver plate, money, and anything else-and the manner of doing it, and of the wanton destruction of the furniture of the houses.

Question. State, if you please, what you know in regard to my policy with reference to the treatment of the people among whom we were and with reference to their property.

I had many conversations with General Buell as to the proper course to be pursued. His policy was one I cordially approved myself, and that was that whatever the Gov-