sary of subsistence: 1,705,106 pounds, equal to 2,202,434 rations, salt meat; 2,711,243 pounds, equal to 2,202,434 rations, hard bread; and a proportionate quantity of the other parts of the rations.

On the 28th July the train of the Chattanooga Railroad ran from Nashville to Stevenson, with 210,000 rations on board. On July 29 the troops were put upon full rations. By July 30 threw into Stevenson 160,000 rations additional. On August 6 a trial train of a few passenger cars was run over the Decatur and Nashville road for the first time from Nashville to Athens; the bridges were pronounced unsafe and the trains suspended. It was not until August 11 that loaded trains could pass safely over the road. On the 10th of August the line between Louisville and Nashville was again cut by the rebels by the capture of Gallatin, Tenn., and the garrison stationed there captured, and railroad communication between Louisville and Nashville was again cut by the rebels by the capture of Gallatin, Tenn., and the garrison stationed there captured, and railroad communication between Louisville and Nashville again stopped. On August 19 the break of communication in Kentucky induced the order to put the troops again on half rations. In the mean time, by General Buell's orders, the lightest boats were seized at Louisville for the purpose of sending stores up the Cumberland River. This line of communication was also cut on the 20th of August by the rebels capturing Clarksville and seizing the first boat with supplies, which had just arrived there, and destroying the supplies on board. On the same day, I think August 20, General Buell's headquarters were moved to Decherd Station. I have before mentioned in my testimony the care taken to save all the supplies and carry them northward with the army and of the efforts made while at Decherd Station to gather all the supplies which could be found in the neighboring region.

In testimony on Saturday I also gave a statement of the means taken to supply the troops on their march from Nashville, by way of Bowling Green, to Louisville. In addition to that I will state that from the time of our arrival at Athens, about the last of June, until our march northward in pursuit of General Bragg, all the transportation of the army, except that which was absolutely necessary to carry the camp and garrison equipage of the troops, was put into requisition on the railway breaks for the purpose of wagoning supplies, and it was not until we reached Nashville, about the 1st of September, that the troops were able to get their proper transportation returned to them. I state that to show that we used every means in our power to bring forward supplies.

Question. Have you any memoranda which will unable you to give the dates at which the different divisions passed some given point on the march to Corinth? Can you state the date of their arrival at Tuscumbia, and, if you can, the date of their departure from the vicinity of Corinth?

On June 11 the advanced brigade of General Wood's division, commanded by General Hascall, was at Tuscumbia; I found them there. I think they got three the same day or the day before. On June 21, ten days afterward, General Nelson's division was at Iuka. From my being at Eastport I do not know the exact time of the arrival at Tuscumbia of the different divisions, but on the 25th, I think, General McCook's and General Crittenden's division had just succeeded in crossing the river at Jackson's Ferry or were in process of doing so. The wagons were taken across on large coal barges decked over, which we had hauled across the Shoals with great trouble.

I cannot exactly give the dates when those barges were taken up to Tuscumbia; I think they were taken up about the 20th. I know that General Thomas' headquarters were at Iuka on the 25th of June, because on that day I had sent him some prisoners.

On July 23, while on my way to Tuscumbia, I met General Schoepf's brigade, of General Thomas' division, on the march for Decatur, where their wagons had to be ferried across the Tennessee River by a very small and fragile scow. they were several days in crossing. I think that the other two brigades of General Thomas' division crossed the river at Florence, commencing to do so on or about the 25th or 26th of July. The progress of this division marching eastward I have no other data to judge by except the murder of General Robert L. McCook, who was killed a few miles east of Athens, Ala., on August 5. I think that General Thomas himself was but a day or so in advance of him and had his headquarters at Decherd Station, from which place on August 6 he telegraphed to General Buell the report of the murder of General McCook on the day before. The brigade of General Robert L. McCook must have passed through Athens on or about the 4th of August.

Question. Do you know anything of the troops being employed in repairing the railroad from Corinth to Decatur during the movement in that direction? If so, state what you know about it.

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