General BUELL. The documents which I submit in evidence, including orders, letters, and telegraphic dispatches, are numbered from 1 to 716, inclusive, in addition to the fractional numbers 1 1/2, 3 1/2, 72 1/2, 80 1/2, 131 1/2, 138 1/2, 145 1/2, 218 1/2, 284 1/2, 327 1/2, 344 1/2, 469 1/2, 510 1/4, 510 1/2, 510 3/4, 511 1/4, 511 1/2, 511 3/4, 512 1/4, 512 1/2, 512 3/4, 549 1/2, 565 1/2, 673 1/2. Besides these I desire to include the dispatches received from Washington and submitted by the judge-advocate for the Government; they embrace many dispatches which I find have been lost from my files.* It will be seen that my file to dispatches to and from General Halleck embraces some that are not included in the file submitted for the Government. Some of the documents submitted do not come within the period to which the investigation has been confined. They might at first view not seem to have any immediate bearing upon the subject submitted to it; they, however, relate to circumstances which are general and permanent in their bearing upon my military operations, and to a greater or less extent entered into the plans which determined the operations of my army for the time to which the investigations of the Commission legitimately extend.

The Commission adjourned to meet Thursday, April 16, 1863, at 10 o'clock a.m.

CINCINNATI, April 16, 1863.

Commission met pursuant to adjournment. Present, the president (General Wallace), General Dana, General Tyler; also the judge-advocate.

The judge-advocate read the following letter to General Buell and the reply thereto:

COURT-ROOM OF COMMISSION,

Cincinnati, April 14, 1863.

Major-General BUELL,

U. S. Army, &c.:

GENERAL: I have the honor to inform you that I have submitted to General Wright the questions authorized by the Commission, which asked him:

1st. As to the number of troops turned over to General Buell in Louisville.

2d. As to the number of enemy under Bragg after a junction with Kirby Smith and after the battle of Perryville.

3d. The circumstances attending the illegal appointment of Captains Gay and Gilbert to the positions of brigadier-general and major-general.

If you will favor me with the cross-interrogatories I will have them asked and answered.

I have the honor to be, general, yours, respectfully,

DONN PIATT,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Judge-Advocate.

CINCINNATI, April 14, 1863.

Lieutenant Colonel DONN PIATT,

Judge-Advocate of Military Commission:

SIR: I have received your letter informing me that you have submitted certain questions to General Wright to be answered by deposition. It will be impossible for me to propound any cross-interrogatories until I know what is elicited from the examination-in-chief.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

D. C. BUELL.

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*The copies substituted for the documentary evidence lost with the original record have been arranged either as "reports" in connection with the events to which they relate, or in chronological order in the "correspondence, orders, and returns." Such of these documents as relate to operations prior to March 4, 1862, are printed in Vol. VII of this series; those relating to operations between March 4 and June 10 appear in Vol. X, and the remainder in this chapter.

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