Question. Do you remember any further particulars of the report than you have stated?

Answer. No, not to General Price.

Re-examined by the JUDGE-ADVOCATE:

Question. You have stated in answer to questions propounded during the cross-examination that you rode along the lines of the army during its march very often, and that General Price used great diligence in preserving order during the march; now state whether or not he took measures to correct every evil resulting from a want of order in the march that was officially reported by you to him.

Answer. He did.

Question (by a MEMBER): To what causes do you attribute the bad discipline of the army, as already stated by you?

Answer. To the fact that two-thirds of the army were deserters from commands south of the Arkansas River, and to the want of the enforcement of discipline by subordinate generals.

The examination of Captain Taylor is here concluded.

The hour of 3 p.m. having arrived the Court adjourned to meet again at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, the 3rd day of May, 1865.

TENTH DAY.

WEDNESDAY, May 3, 1865-9 a.m.

The Court met pursuant to adjournment.

Present, Brigadier General Thomas F. Drayton, Provisional Army, C. S.; Brigadier General E. McNair, Provisional Army, C. S.; Major O. M. Watkins, assistant adjutant-general and judge-advocate. Colonel P. N. Luckett, Third Texas Infantry, absent.

Major-General Price appeared before the Court.

The record of the proceedings of yesterday were read.

The judge-advocate then read to the Court the following order and letter from department headquarters.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, No. 104. Shreveport, La., May 2, 1865.

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VIII. The Court of Inquiry instituted at the instance of Major-General Price by Paragraph XVI, Special Orders, No. 58, current series, Department Headquarters, will on receipt of this order adjourn to Washington, Ark., and there resume its sessions.

By command of General E. Kirby Smith:

P. B. LEEDS,
Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

Major O. M. WATKINS.

HDQRS. TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Shreveport, May 3, 1865.

Brigadier General T. F. DRAYTON,

Provisional Army, C. S., President Court of Inquiry, Shreveport:

GENERAL: I am directed by the general commanding to say the Court of Inquiry of which you are president will finish with the witness it may now have on the stand before adjourning to Washington as directed in the order of yesterday, but that no new witnesses will be called here.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

S. S. ANDERSON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.