They refused to let me go at first until they could send us out from their lines with an escort.

Question. Who do you mean by "we"?

The whole of the prisoners who were taken.

Question. There was no restraint placed upon your observation about that time, was there?

No, sir; they gave us the liberty of the town, but we had a guard following us all the time.

Question. Now state, if you please, what troops they were that were sent out on the Perryville road between 8 and 12 o'clock on the morning of the 10th.

The forces under Kirby Smith. I do not know the troops except by their battle-flags. There were troops moving in every direction. There were troops moving on the road leading from Camp Dick Robinson; also on the Perryville road. Cavalry was constantly going and couriers going and coming all the time. The troops of Kirby Smith did not go out by the road to Camp Dick Robinson (as laid down on the map), but on the road (as laid down on the map) leading from Harrodsburg to Perryville.

Question. Look at the map, if you please, and inform the Commission what road you mean by the Perryville and the road to Camp Dick Robinson?

(Referring to Perryville map.) It was upon this road from Harrodsburg to Perryville that I was taken in-the road from Camp Dick Robinson as laid down upon the map.

Question. Are you certain, major, that these troops you saw leaving Harrodsburg were moving down upon this road leading from Harrodsburg to Danville?

I am certain they did not come down on that road unless there were other roads across the country from which they could come on to this road, because they came up on the Perryville road.

Question. Where and how did you learn the fact Hardee, Cheatham, and Kirby Smith united were moving down upon the Army of the Ohio?

When I was brought in from Harrodsburg on the morning of the 9th we then passed the troops retreating on the Perryville road to Harrodsburg. I was taken out upon the Danville pike on the cross-road; kept here till 3 in the morning; was then taken upon a cross-road, and passed the troops of Buckner, Hardee, and Polk retreating into Harrodsburg. That was on the morning of the 9th. They then took the road down to Camp Dick Robinson on that day. I could see them from the building in which I was placed and observed them going back. I saw their battle-flags and had explained to me which were Hardee's forces, which were Cheatham's, and which Buckner's. On the morning of the 10th Kirby Smith came in. I do not know what road it is that leads out of Harrodsburg; it was not the Camp Dick Robinson road or the Danville or the Perryville road on which Kirby Smith's forces came.

Question. If you saw Buckner's, Hardee's, and Cheatham's forces retreat down toward Camp Dick Robinson and Kirby Smith's forces march down toward Perryville how came you to report that there was a junction of those forces and that they were moving down to attack the Army of the Ohio?

This was upon the morning of the 9th that I saw these forces going down upon the road leading to Camp Dick Robinson. On the morning of the 10th Kirby Smith's forces came into Harrodsburg and the forces of Buckner and Cheatham came back upon the road leading from Camp Dick Robinson.

Question. What time on the morning of the 10th did you see these forces coming back from Camp Dick Robinson?