you please, what the whole effective force was, according to that report, including the First Division, which does not appear on that report.

This report is incorrect.

Question. Point out the error and explain it, if you can.

The report gives the total effective strength as 52,526. There is an error in summing up the totals of the divisions; it should be 47,711. (Major Wright, continuing the examination of the report.) I am mistaken; it is right as it stands in the report. I did not include the regiments which were in Kentucky. Including the First Division there are 58,526.

Question. Now see what effective force there was on the south of the Cumberland River at that date.

Forty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty-seven.

Question. Do those reports show the actual strength at the date of the report?

These consolidated reports were made up from the reports of the division commanders, which were forwarded as regularly as possible but were received in Nashville very irregularly. Sometimes the reports were two or three weeks old from which these reports were made up.

Question. In you statement of the effective force south of the Cumberland have you deducted the regiments which on that report are reported as belonging to Nashville when in reality they were not there?

I have deducted them.

Cross-examination by the JUDGE-ADVOCATE:

Question. Who was in command of the First Division; and can you explain why that was not included in these reports; and from what did you make up the number to be 6,000?

When General Thomas was put in command of the Army of the Mississippi, in front of Corinth, his division (the first which he commanded) went with him, and did not rejoin the Army of the Ohio until it entered North Alabama. This is the reason it does not appear in these reports. They either joined subsequent to the dates of most of these reports of his reports had not probably been received at Nashville. I said on Saturday that I had no report of General Thomas' division. I got its strength from reports at Nashville, and said its effective strength was about 6,000.

Question. Had Brigadier-General Schoepf the command of a division at that time?

No, sir; he was commanding a brigade of the First Division.

Question. Where were the two divisions that joined you subsequently from Grant's army on the 1st of September, 1862?

General Mitchell's division was near Murfreesborough, where they joined us. Paine's division was marched directly to Nashville. I do not know where it was on the 1st of September.

Question. What time did it reach Nashville?

I do not know the exact date; I think, however, it was after we left there.

Question. What was the number of these two divisions?

I never saw any official report of the strength of these divisions. General Mitchell told me on his arrival at Murfreesborough that he had about 5,000 men. The other division, I suppose, numbered about the same.

Question. At the date at which you give the effective force south of the Cumberland what force was there between Nashville and Bowling Green and at Bowling Green?

The reports of the troops at Nashville and north of the Cumberland were all sent to the office at Nashville and never came into my hands, and I never saw them. I