Question. I understand you to say that it was the lack of transportation that made it impossible to support 20,000 men where 5,000 or 6,000 suffered?

No, sir. I do not recollect saying transportation only. We had nearly exhausted the whole country in the way of supplies. I mean by that that our trains could not supply such an army. The distance they had to go was 25 to 30 miles. They had to be wagoner down to Alabama.

Question. Do you know anything more of this telegram than what appears upon the face of it?

I do not; except that I was two or three times called over to General Smith's headquarters-in fact I was at the headquarters all the time-to consult with him on the possibility of getting supplies from Battle Creek. General Sill and Colonel Stark-wheaten both represented that the troops were in a suffering condition.

Question. Do you know whether this refers to forage and rations or as to what the country might supply or what they would have on hand from the stores of the army?

I think it refers to both or, properly speaking, to what they had belonging to the army. Of course they looked to headquarters for their supplies as much as possible.

Question. The country about Battle Creek was about the worst region you had to live upon, was it not?

I believe it was

Question. In the indorsement upon the back you are ordered to see to the supplies at one; do you recollect how you remedied the difficulty?

My impression is that the commissary sent supplies that he had received from Nashville directly down there. I sent wagons into the country that got in some corn and fodder, and that, together with some supplies that were received from Nashville, I believed were sent down. but if did not remedy the evil; it was only an alleviation of it.

Question. It the two regiments could not subsist there, how did Crittenden's and McCook's manage to subsist till late in August?

As I said before supplies came in more abundantly after General Buell came to Huntsville; they were directed to that point. The steamboats were coming down to Nashville by the Cumberland River loaded for that army. These supplies were all sent direct to Huntsville as fast as they could be sent there, but our communication was very uncertain from nashville. I was ordered away form Huntsville on the 11th of July, I believe.

Commission adjourned to meet February 25.

CINCINNATI, February 25, 1863.

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

RUSSELL HUSTON (a witness for the defendant) being duly sworn by the judge-advocate, testified as follows:

By General BUELL:

Question. State you name and place of residence, if you please.

Russell Huston; residence, Nashville, Tenn.

Question. what is your profession or calling?

I am a lawyer.

Question. I wish to submit to Mr. Huston and to the Commission an order which I published on entering Nashville in February last, and to