Question. Had the Army of the Ohio taken its position at that time at Sparta with Bragg at McMinnville in how many days would it have been driven from there by want of supplies?

It would be impossible for me to state with what quantity of supplies the Army of the Ohio could have been placed at Sparta. I only know that supplies were very scarce, that we were required most of that time to live on half rations, and that the railroads were broken by which our supplies came. My impression is that the Army of the Ohio could not have been placed at Sparta with supplies that would have enabled them to remain there many days. It must necessarily have been a very short time they could have remained at Sparta with Bragg at McMinnville.

Question. With the Army of the Ohio at Sparta and its supplies exhausted was it possible for it to have reached its base of supplies at Nashville without fighting a battle with the rebel army?

I think not, sir. The rebel army at McMinnville, as I have stated, if I am correct in my judgment on the subject, had a better and shorter route to Nashville than the Army of the Ohio would have had in starting from Sparta; they would have had to fight on the way or at Nashville if General Bragg had so chosen. That is my belief.

QQuestion. Then was it not at Bragg's option to make a flank attack on the Army of the Ohio during their retrograde movement?

I cannot state that it was at Bragg's option to make a flank attack. I can only say, as I stated before, that I consider him in the advance. He could have reached Nashville first, and it would depend entirely on the roads, with which I am not acquainted and the direction of the roads by which the two armies marched, whether he could have made a flank attack or not. I am not prepared to say. I think, being nearer to Nashville and having the best roads, we would have had to fight there or before it the nature of the country would have admitted of a flank attack.

Question. When both armies started north from the Cumberland River were they either of them exposed in their flanks to the other during that march?

I think not, sir.

Question. With the rebel army at Glasgow and the Army of the Ohio arriving by divisions at Bowling Green would it have been exposed in its flank from that point onward and just before reaching that point to an attack of the rebel army?

From Bowling Green onward perhaps to Munfordville, as well as I recollect the distance, the roads, and the country, with the rebel army at Glasgow and the Army of the Ohio moving on the road by which it marched, I think it was exposed to a flank attack from Glasgow. I thought of that when I answered that on the march neither army was exposed in its flank, but I did not refer to it, because when we moved from Bowling Green it was known that a considerable portion of Bragg's army had already left Glasgow about that time, which made me think that the flank of neither army was exposed.

Question. With the armies of about equal strength and enterprise, traveling over a considerable distance of country in the same direction on roads pretty nearly parallel and with cross-roads connecting those roads and a country practicable for infantry between the roads, at what distance do you consider it necessary those roads should be apart to make either army safe from a flank attack from the other?

It would depend entirely, in my judgment, upon the relative position of the two armies. If one was considerably in advance of the other it might cover its movements and brave the time to march a very considerable distance. To attack an army in flank as it passed, with two armies marching with the heads of their columns nearly parallel, I should think that anything over a day's march (the distance of a day's march) would make either army secure in its flank.

Question. What is the distance from Carthage to Gallatin?

It seems to be about 28 miles in a direct line by the scale on the map; I do not know the distance by any roads; my impression was that it was considerably farther than that.