Question. You say the army concentrated at Louisville could not have resisted Bragg with the Army of the Ohio for its support and on the heels of Bragg; was there ever any danger that Bragg would attack Louisville?

I think there was the greatest danger that Bragg would attack Louisville. All the information that I received on the march from Bowling Green to Louisville certainly indicated that the people at Louisville and the officers anticipated an attack upon the city by Bragg. General Nelson I know felt the greatest apprehension, and I have no doubt at all that General Bragg could have reached Louisville and have taken it before General Buell got there. The information which I also received was that Kirby Smith had united his forces with Bragg's at Bardstown, which made it of course still more practicable for Bragg to have taken Louisville.

Question. What time did you learn that Kirby Smith had not joined General Bragg at Bardstown?

I cannot remember when I first learned that Kirby Smith had not joined General Bragg at Bardstown.

Question. What was the strength of the Army of the Ohio when it moved from Louisville on Bardstown?

I do not know certainly the strength of the Army of the Ohio at that time. My own command I suppose was about 25,000; that was diminished considerably by desertion, but I do not know to what extent. I suppose the other corps of the army, and there were two of them, were about as strong as mine. I knew nothing about them, however.

Question. What reason did General Buell give you at Bardstown that Bragg must make a stand at Perryville?

I am not sure that General Buell gave me any answer at all. I am rather inclined to the opinion that I was present at a conversation between General Buell and General Thomas, in which General Buell suggested that Bragg must make a stand there and that Perryville was a point at which he might make a stand; and my impression is that he also suggested in that conversation that it was possible for Kirby Smith to unite his forces with Bragg at Perryville. My recollection of this conversation is somewhat vague. It was a hurried conversation. I was but a hurried conversation. I was but a few moments in the room, and marched directly afterwards. I should never probably have remembered it but that a fight did actually take place at Perryville.

Question. Is it not your opinion that Bragg anticipated a junction at Perryville with Kirby Smith, and not finding him there was forced to check the Army of the Ohio until he could form such a junction?

I have no reason to suppose that Bragg expected a junction with Kirby Smith at Perryville any more than at any other point where they were likely to come together, and I really do not know why Bragg fought at Perryville, with Kirby Smith so near him, unless be thought it was the best way to check the pursuit of the Army of the Ohio by a violent attack and then retreat to Kirby Smith.

Question. Did General Buell when you left Springfield designate the place you were to encamp at that night?

Is my impression that he did, sir. I do not remember precisely whether General Buell gave me the order or whether I got it from General Thomas. I know I expected to encamp at Haysville, and was astonished when we turned from the road at Haysville and went to Salt River.

Question. Please look at the instructions of October 7, given to General Thomas, and tell the Commission whether those instructions were literally carried out; if not, please state the particulars in which they were not carried out.

Those instructions were not literally carried out. We were ordered by the instructions to march precisely at 3 o'clock on the morning of the 8th without fail. We did not march till 7 o'clock with the First Division, at 9 o'clock with the Second, and 11 o'clock with the Third Division, because, as I have stated I believe, the command was all night almost getting into camp, at least a portion of it, the rear division. This order was not received by me, and I knew nothing of its existence till very near the time named