Question. What were the particular troubles you had to encounter?

Want of water, fear of guerrillas, and a want of machinery.

Question. Would not a single company or half a company guarantee these mills from incursions from the guerrillas?

It would have needed as much as one company, and that one company would have needed stockades for protection.

Question. Then I understand from you testimony that only two mills were available to cut your lumber out, and that these were where water is uncertain; that they were exposed to guerrilla incursions, and the machinery was inferior?

At one of these mills-Paint Rock- the water was all the while failing, though that mill was in the least danger. The mill at Stevenson was a pretty good one. the others were right in the infested region, near Woodville. I think that is the name of the station.

Question. I think in your direct testimony you say that the road was completed before there were sufficient supplies collected at Stevenson; what means had you of knowing what were sufficient supplies and when they were collected?

My means of knowing were from Captain Smith and from the trouble our quartermaster had occasionally in getting supplies and from the general talk of officers and men connected with the commissary department.

Question. Do you know that any particular amount of supplies was fixed upon as necessary; if so, what was that amount?

I do not know the amount or if there was any fixed upon.

Question. You were a captain in Colonel Innes' regiment, I understand; would Colonel Innes have had as good an opportunity of knowing or testifying as to the points upon which you have testified yourself?

With the exception of about the formation and building of the gunboat he could have spoken as to the efficiency or inefficiency of the gunboat while actin gas ferry-boat at Decatur and about the trouble in starting those mills. He would not have known as much as I did of the complaints that the mills were not started sooner, but I have endeavored to explain to him many times why they were not started sooner.

Question. Then Colonel Innes was dissatisfied, was he, with the administration of that branch of the service?

He was dissatisfied with the delay in starting the mills, but he never complained of me as far as running the road was concerned.

Question. You stated in your direct testimony that General Mitchell's force was 7,000 men; did that include the whole force of General Mitchell, all told?

At Huntsville and supplied from that depot.

Question. What other divisions had he and where were they?

He had a brigade or part of a brigade a part of the time at Shelbyville, I think.

Question. That is included in the 7,000 men?

It is not included in the 7,000.

Question. Had General Mitchell any force under his command except the 7,000 and this brigade or part of a brigade at Shelbyville?

There were some troops at Murfreesborough, but I do not know whether they reported to General Mitchell or not. I am not acquainted with part of General Mitchell's