There may have been on the line of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and on the lines in communication with Cumberland Gap.

Question. If it should prove, however, that the consolidated morning report does not include the force at Cumberland Gap and those on the lines you have enumerated, are you still firm in your recollection that you fed only 45,000 men at that time?

It is my impression it was about that number.

The Commission then adjourned to meet on Tuesday, March 24, at 10 o'clock a. m.

The Commission the adjourned to meet on Tuesday, March 24, at 10 o'clock a. m.

CINCINNATI, Tuesday, March 24, 1863.

The Commission met pursuant to adjournment. Members present, General Wallace, General Dana, General Tyler; also the judge-advocate and General Buell.

Cross-examination of Colonel FRANCIS DARR continued.

By the JUDGE-ADVOCATE:

Question. In stating that the available force was 45,000 men are to understand it to include the two divisions that were added at Nashville after the army was massed there?

No sir; in estimating the effective force 45,000 men I included our own command when we made the junction with General Mitchel's force at Huntsville and in that region. The two divisions from General Grant's army alluded to in the question joined us on or about September 1. The first division from General Grant's army joined the main column of General buell's troops at Murfreesborough and the second division alluded to in the question reached Nashville a few days after the main body of General Buell's troops had left. I do not remember exactly the strength of the division of General Grant's army which joined us at Murfreesborough, but from my impression I think it amounted to about 5,000 men, which would have made our troops at that point after that junction about 50,000.

Question. Do you say that the two divisions only made about 5,000 men?

No, sir; the division that joined us at Murfreesborough. I did not see the other division, as they arrived at Nashville after I left.

Question. This 50,000, then, does not include the forces under Morgan at Cumberland Gap or the force stretched along the line to protect the communication?

This estimated force did not include Morgan's force at Cumberland Gap nor the troops north of the Cumberland River.

Question. At the time the various repairs were ordered on the railroad you enumerated was it not known that the lack of sufficient rolling stock would prevent this road being of use in supplying the army?

While our troops were repairing and on the march to Huntsville I inquired of Colonel Fry, chief of staff of General Buell, about the prospect of supplies when we reached Huntsville, and if I remember aright I think he told me that they had assurances from General Mitchel of the most encouraging kind; that with the wagons General Mitchel then had he (General Mitchel) thought he could supply a force of about 25,000 men. In order to make the supply more certain a large train of wagons had been sent from Tuscumbia, under the escort of cavalry, up to Reynolds' Station, on the Nashville and Decatur road, to assist in wagoning supplies around the break. This was done several times before the head of the column left florence. As to the fact of the rolling stock not being sufficient to supply the troops after the railroad should be completed being known or not I am not aware, having been from about the 1st of April to the middle of June in and about Northern Mississippi.

Question. Were not the wagon and railroad trains used by General Mitchel's army to carry cotton confined to return trains, which would