of the river some heavy guns. We also had some few gunboats, with two or four 11-inch guns, and with these the city could have been made perfectly untenable to any troops that attempted to occupy it.

Question. In anticipation of such a movements as you have described, or of a possible reverse, if it had been determined to await the attack of Bragg's army at Louisville, and considering that the Army of the Ohio was out of supplies, was it judicious or not to order supplies to Brandeburg for its use if necessary?

I deemed it of vital importance.

Question. Is or is not the country between the road which you would have followed from Louisville to the mouth of Salt River and the road on which the enemy was moving of such a character as would have enabled you to make that movement with perfect safety?

I deemed it so. The object of throwing the cavalry out was not to fight a battle or to head off a column, but to intercept information carried by spies, of which there were thousands in our midst giving information every hour. My order was to intercept everything they found going in any direction. I never deemed the enemy could reach us till we arrived in the vicinity of Elizabethtown, and then it would be a very hazardous movement for them, one that I would rather court; for General Buell could have taken them in flank and have cut them in two. The country is a rough, tumbled-up country. The spurs of Muldraught's Hill run off and form cuts and ravines that are almost impassable.

Question. Is there any road at all by which an army could pass from Bardstown directly to the mouth of Salt River?

No, sir; not to my knowledge.

Before the adjournment General Granger expressed a wish that his examination before the Commission might be conducted with as little delay as possible, as the exigencies of the service in his department and the necessity for his presence made it very desirable that he should be with his command.

Commission adjourned to meet February 17.

CINCINATTI, February 17, 1863.

Commission met pursuant to adjournment. All the members present; also the judge-advocate and General Buell.

General GRANGER'S examination continued.

By General BUELL:

Question. Up to the 25th September last what progress had been made in fortifying the city of Louisville against an attack of the rebel army?

At that date very little had been done. The work was commenced, I think, the day previous, and was carried on till, I think, about the 28th, when the trenches were completed.

Question. Can you state about what portion of the front remained uncovered by intrenchments?

On our extreme right, between our intrenchments and the river, there was a space left open of about one mile. I did not measure if, but that is my recollection. I think General Robert [S.] Granger, who was standing on the ground, thought that was about the distance. There was an opening also in about the center, near where General Gilbert had his troops posted. What that was I do not know or whether trenches were thrown up afterward when he arrived there, but for two or three days I know there was nothing done there. Again, on the extreme left was on open space of, I should think, half a mile, as near as I remember; it might have been a little more or a little less.