Question. You say supplies were plenty at Lebanon; suppose the Army of the Ohio had been massed at that point before or after Bragg passed Sparta, would it not have been in a position to oppose his advance into Kentucky or his farther advance into Tennessee?

If the Army of the Ohio had been massed at Lebanon I should have considered that it made it a more hazardous thing for General Bragg to attempt the passage of the Cumberland River where he did actually cross than if the Army of the Ohio had been massed at Nashville; but I am inclined to think, without any accurate knowledge of the distances, that General Bragg could still have crossed the river, and I should have considered the Army of the Ohio in a worse place at Lebanon than at Nashville for any future operations.

Question. Supposing General Bragg's army to have numbered 35,000 or 40,000 men and subsisting on the country through which they marched, was it possible for him to move upon one road; and if the Army of the Ohio had been massed at Lebanon would he have been forced to concentrate his forces so as to meet us?

I have not a sufficient knowledge of the country to know whether General Bragg could have marched his army and have subsisted on one road. I am inclined to think he would have been compelled to have arranged for such a march beforehand, if the country had sufficient supplies and with the large cavalry force he had. The people sympathized with him and would bring him over supplies. I suppose it would be possible, marching rapidly as he did, to subsist his army through that country. With such an arrangement as that I think he would not necessarily have been compelled to mass his forces for the purpose of fighting at Lebanon. I think it was practicable for him to have passed the Cumberland.

Question. Are you sufficiently acquainted with the details of the army and the exigencies of the service at the time as to be able to tell the Commission why out of an army of 62,481 men 50,000 could not have been massed at some point in Tennessee to have opposed the advance of an army of 35,000 or 40,000?

The knowledge I had of the Army of the Ohio at that time has been pretty well shown in my examination here by my estimate of the strength of the divisions. In my statement as to the divisions which compose the army I did not include General Morgan's force. My acquaintance with the details of the service would enable me to account for a very considerable difference between the effective force of an army in the field and the returns. General Rosecrans told me the other day that he had more men absent from his army than he had present on duty-some 40,000 men on duty and some 50,000 men absent. The only reason that I could assign, from my knowledge of the facts and my impression of the strength of the army, why 50,000 men could not have been concentrated was that there was no such force there in the Army of the Ohio.

Question. What was the force concentrated at Nashville at the time General Buell fell back toward Bowling Green?

I do not know what force General Negley had, who was I think in Nashville at the time of General Buell's arrival there, nor do I know what other forces had come into Nashville; some I think came in from Columbia. I cannot say to what extent the strength of the army was increased. My estimate of the force with which we marched to Nashville was about 30,000 men; but the strength that we acquired in Nashville I did not learn; I passed directly through Nashville.

Question. You state that General Negley crossed the mountains from Chattanooga to Altamont and Winchester. You are probably aware that General Negley commanded only a brigade and marched in a season when water was plenty. It is your opinion that Bragg could have marched his army by that route in September?

I stated I think that I understood General Negley passed over that road. I have no knowledge of the fact. I ought to have so stated; whether I did or not I cannot say. I have no knowledge of the road, and only infer it is a practicable road for an army from the fact-assuming it to be a fact-that an army had actually passed over the road. It would make a great difference in going over a mountainous country whether water was scarce or abundant. I did not know the strength of Gen-