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Not necessarily. The conversation, if any, from the station at headquarters would have been carried on with the Station Numbers 2, while I was most of the afternoon at Station Numbers 3.

Question. Do you know that those stations were busily at work passing signals all that afternoon?

No, sir; I do not.

Question. Did Lieutenant Fitch accompany you to the court-room at Nashville at the time I sent for you or was it Lieutenant Sheridan?

Neither of them accompanied me as a witness. Lieutenant Sheridan was afterward subpoenaed as a witness, and went there, but the court had adjourned to Louisville.

Question. Do you know that Lieutenant Fitch was ordered to appear and did come to Nashville at that time?

I have no knowledge of it, sir.

Question. At what time did you leave Station Numbers 3 that afternoon to go to McCook's left and establish communications?

I think it was about half past 4 o'clock. I cannot speak positively, but I think it was about that hour.

Question. In fixing the date and attaching the signature to some of these dispatches you have introduced you rely exclusively upon your memory, do you not?

With reference to these that are not dated I do.

By General TYLER:

Question. From what source or sources did you get the impression that the battle would be renewed next morning? Please explain.

I cannot give the source of the impression. I suppose I got it from the fact that I thought the battle was as yet undecided, and that I knew of the order for this attack to General Crittenden, and that there were troops in reserve that had not been engaged.

Question. Was General Crittenden ordered to attack the enemy or to be ready to attack the enemy?

The order reads to be ready to attack the enemy.

Question. Do you know of any order having been given to General Crittenden to attack the enemy?

I do not.

Question. What reason had you for expecting to find the enemy "the next morning" where they were the night before, as stated in your testimony?

It was a result arrived at in my own mind by some course of reasoning which I cannot now explain.

Question. You did not find them there the next morning.

I did not. I was not out; I was at headquarters of the Army of the Ohio.

Question. What would be the effect if all the signal officers arrogated to themselves the right to judge of military movements and go and report them on their own authority to headquarters?

The effect would be merely an expression of their own opinion, to be judged of by the general commanding according to their merits.

Question. Under whose control was the signal corps in General Buell's army?

I was the general signal officer in General Buell's army.