of counties, commencing at Franklin, running east, coming down through Lincoln, Giles, and Lawrence, it is more or less a cotton-producing country. In that part ordered by Alabama, a greater proportion of meat and breadstuffs is raised than on the Alabama side. I cannot state what proportion of those counties send certain amounts of breadstuffs and meat into Alabama, but the amount of meat and breadstuffs sent by them would not be enough to supply north of alabama Without sending into Middle Tennessee and Kentucky.

Question. Which of those counties is the most productive in supplies of provisions and forage?

Lincoln, sir, produces more breadstuffs and meats than any of those counties. Lincoln is a mountainous county, containing a great deal of rich valley land not adapted to the cultivation of cotton; hence they raise other supplies-provisions.

Question. About what time were the supplies from the States north of Tennessee, from which you say Alabama and other Southern States have been in the habit of drawing supplies of provisions, cut off from that market by the rebellion?

The rebellion was inaugurated in the winter of 1860 and the spring of 1861, and the supplies were cut off about that time. For instance, we put up our bacon in the winter; the bacon supply was cut off in the winter of 1861. Before the inauguration of the rebellion we had put up for 1861, but in the winter of 1861 our supplies were cut off by the rebellion.

Question. Did that circumstance throw a great demand upon that region of Tennessee for its surplus of provisions?

Yes, sir. That portion of Middle Tennessee and that portion that borders Alabama was overrun by the rebels and there was avery large amount of Confederate stores put up all through that region of Tennessee.

Question. What route or routes did the rebel army pursue in its retreat from Nashville south in the spring of 1862?

I do know. The larger proportion of the rebel army, and the whole of it as far as I know and believe, went from Nashville to Murfreesborough, from Murfreesborough to Shelbyville, from Shelbyville to Fayetteville, from Fayetteville, to Huntsville from Huntsville to Decatur. Some proportion of it may have gone by some other routes, but I am not certain.

Question. State, if you please, what you know of the agricultural resources of the country between Bridgeport and Chattanooga and within a circle of 10 or 15 miles around Chattanooga in all directions, explaining anything with reference to the topography of that country that may serve to illustrate the subject, if you please.

From Bridgeport to Chattanooga-the Memphis and Chattanooga Railroad crosses the Tennessee River at Bridgeport, and there on both sides of the river it is almost a perfectly mountainous country up to Chattanooga, and as to its productions they are extremely limited. It is only from 10 to 15 miles from Bridgeport to Chattanooga. From Bridgeport on the south and the north the country is entirely mountainous. When you get beyond, south of Chattanooga, there is some pretty good productive country within a distance of 15 miles; but I do not know much about that country beyond Chattanooga, except that there is some pretty good country, and I think the productions are entirely breadstuffs and meat.

Question. Do you know enough of it to be able to say whether there would probably have been much surplus provisions in that country last summer, considering the limits to which the Southern demand was confined by the circumstance of the rebellion?

I could only give an opinion there; I should say that there was not. That opinion would be predicated on this: that Chattanooga had been in the possession of the rebels and the rebel army was there during the whole spring and summer.

Question. If not required for any force at Chattanooga, would it probably have been drawn off for other points to supply the demands of the cotton States?

It is simply my opinion again and I must give reasons. The Charleston Rail