An amendment was offered by the president substituting Thursday (for Tuesday), April 30, and that the Commission adjourn to that day at 12 o'clock.

Carried unanimously.

The Commission thereupon adjourned to Thursday, April 30, 1863.

COURT-ROOM OF COMMISSION,

Louisville, Ky., January 12, 1863.

Major R. SKINNER,

Judge-Advocate, Army of the Cumberland, &c.:

MAJOR: Inclosed I have the honor of forwarding you certain questions which I wish asked Captain Morton under oath in behalf of Major-General Buell.

You will attach the oath and answers to the inclosed paper and mail them to this place. You will also ask the inclosed questions on behalf of the Government.

By attending to this as soon as practicable you will oblige, yours, respectfully,

DONN PIATT,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General, Judge-Advocate.

Copy of questions to Captain Morton.

1. State your name and position in the service of the United States and whether you were on duty with the Army of the Ohio last summer.

2. Give a detailed statement of the service on which you were engaged and the work you executed in preparing pontoon bridges, ferries, and defenses for railroad bridges and other points, from the time you joined the Army of the Ohio until the departure of the main part of the army from Nashville to Kentucky in September last.

3. State by whose orders the works were executed; whether they were necessary and why; what means you were authorized to employ for them, and whether they were prosecuted with industry and energy. Give the dates of the commencement and completion of the several works, and if there was any delay in either state the cause of it.

4. What is the length of the capitol at Nashville?

5. What length of line will a regiment 475 strong occupy in line of battle or on parade?

Cross-examination:

What became of the improvements upon railroad lines and defenses constructed by our forces in Tennessee at the time the Army of the Ohio fell back to Nashville?

HEADQUARTERS PIONEER BRIGADE,
ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND,

Camp near Murfreesborough,--- --, 1863.

Major R. SKINNER, Judge-Advocate:

MAJOR: In reply to the question propounded in yours of the 5th instant I have the honor to state:

1. My name is James St. Clair Morton; a captain of engineers. Was on duty with Army of the Ohio last summer as chief engineer from date of June 9.

2. On June 11, being ordered by General Buell to provide for the crossing of his army over the Tennessee River, I went to Pittsburg Landing and Eastport, where I procured two suitable barges and a steamboat, of which, together with the floors,

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