By General DANA:

Question. Within the precincts of whose corps and division was the meeting held to which you have testified?

It was at a house not within any officer's command.

MONDAY AFTERNOON, December 22, 1862.

General FRY'S examination continued.

Cross-examined by General BUELL:

Question. How long had this scarcity of provisions lasted which you say tended in a measure to demoralize the troops?

Our supplies were cut off some time in the month of August. While my division was stationed at Decherd we were on half rations-from that time until we reached Louisville or Bowling Green, I do not recollect which; Louisville I think.

Question. Are you able to say, general, how far this interruption of our communications was my fault?

I cannot say how far General Buell was in fault in regard to the cutting off of supplies; but our forces were very much scattered, and at points where there was no protection to the railroads.

Question. Will you specify the positions of the troops by way of illustration on this point?

So far as my recollection now serves me a portion of our troops were at Huntsville and Decherd, and some few of them at Pulaski. My brigade and Colonel Walker's brigade were for a time at Decherd and Winchester, which in close by. A short time after we reached Decherd the First and Second Brigades were sent to Pelham, 16 miles southeast, I think, of Decherd. General McCook was, if I recollect rightly, at Stevenson or near there. General Wood's division and the division commanded by General Ammen were sent to McMinnville. I do not know what troops there were between this place and Decherd. I do not recollect the particular locality of any of the rest of the command.

Question. When did the interruption occur in the communications of the army during the time the troops were occupying these positions?

I think the principal interruption was at the tunnel some 7 or 8 miles beyond Gallatin. There were some other slight interruption. I so not now recollect the exact point.

Question. Were they south of Nashville or north?

They were north.

Question. What force do you think would have been necessary to keep open the communications of the army between Nashville and Louisville?

I cannot tell what force it would take; at some points it would take a considerable force, at other points a less force.

Question. Do you know, or did you know, the object of the concentration of the troops on the line from McMinnville to Decherd?

I supposed the object was to meet the enemy, as I at first understood they were coming in that direction, but afterward satisfied myself that the enemy was rapidly making its way toward Kentucky, and so informed General Buell.

Question. When did you first become convinced that Bragg was marching for Kentucky, and not for Nashville, Tenn.?

I became thoroughly convinced while I was at Decherd, though I was fully of the opinion that that was his purpose while I was stationed at Tuscumbia, Ala., and so expressed it to officers of the army and by letter to my friends in Kentucky.

Question. On what was that opinion based?

It was based on information received from reliable persons who were conversant