Question. Is the Commission to understand that the that of four or five days at Bowling Green was owing solely to the lack of subsistence?

I have no doubt it partly was, because we consumed that time in getting in the wheat and flour. Besides this, the labor of loading the wagons with supplies consumed a great deal of time, and troops were necessary to guard the forage trains.

Question. Were the other halts, amounting in all to four or five days, between Nashville and Munfordville, owing to the same cause?

I do not know.

Question. Was not the Nashville and Louisville Railroad in operation from Louisville as far as Bowling Green at the time our advance guard reached Bowling Green?

The trains did not come through for several days, on account of the fear of guerrillas. I do not know the exact day when the last train left Louisville for Bowling Green.

Question. Did you not know that the railroad was in operation as far as Munfordville, and that soldier were sent there re-enforce that point after their arrival at Bowling Green by rail?

I heard so; but the rebel troops occupied positions on the railroad between Munfordville and Bowling Green.

Question. Had the four or five days, or the ten days in all, been used to secure Munfordville and the railroad, would you not have been in a better position in regard to supplies than in gathering them up all over the country near Bowling Green?

I am unable to say. Such an attempt may not have been successful or it may have been impossible.

Question. Was your information of such a character that you could say positively that the Army of the Ohio was not demoralized in its march from Bowling Green to Louisville?

I would say if there was demoralization I did not see it, nor do I think there was.

Question. Can you give any instance from your own observation in the service where the rebel inhabitants voluntarily furnished the rebel army with supplies other than those you have alluded to in Tennessee and Kentucky?

In Western Virginia the rebel sympathizers freely gave the guerrillas subsistence.

Question. Guerrillas were in a position to help themselves. Can you give an instance where the army was voluntarily supplied by the inhabitants in Western Virginia?

No, sir.

General BUELL. The judge-advocate in his cross-examination has touched upon some points which were not embraced in the examination-in-chief. Under the established rules governing the proceedings of military courts I should be allowed to examine the witness upon those points. The arbitrary rule which you have established precludes me from doing so unless by special permission. I have perhaps half a dozen question I should like to ask the witness.