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310 Series I Volume XVI-I Serial 22 - Morgan's First Kentucky Raid, Perryville Campaign Part I

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number of prisoners, as stated in your previous testimony, but here are six pages, embracing about 400 prisoners, without any marks showing from what regiments they are. Where do you get your report from?

If you will look at the bottom of those blank pages and see by whom the parole of those prisoners is attested that will show where I got it. When it is not indicated in the regiment column what regiment they belonged to they are the prisoners of the Third Georgia Cavalry, and at the bottom is the attestation of Martin J. Crawford, colonel Third Georgia Cavalry, that upon a certain day they were paroled:

"--- --- is paroled by me this 15th Oct., 1862.

"STEPHEN E. JONES,

"Captain, Louisville, Ky.

"Attestation:

"MARTIN J. CRAWFORD,

"Colonel Third Georgia CavalryJanuary

By General BUELL:

Question. How many of prisoners included in your report were captured at Fort Donelson and Corinth, and do those prisoners belong to regiments which are not otherwise represented as part of the force which invaded Kentucky last summer?

There appear here to be 3 prisoners forwarded from this place that were captured at Corinth, and 1 I remember, as I stated, was captured at Mill Springs, and 1 at Fort Donelson. The 1 captured at Mill Springs belonged, I think, to the First Tennessee Regiment, represented by quite a number of prisoners. Of the 3 captured at Corinth I cannot now state what regiments they belong to or whether these regiments are represented at all. I can ascertain by looking over the parole-book whether those regiments to which they belong are otherwise represented here. Although it is not strictly in answer to the question of General Buell, it is a statement which I ought to make in explanation of the present report, namely, that it embraces more than the report previously made, that is, in point of numbers; it embraces several hundred prisoners that had been shipped from this place subsequent to the time the last report was made out and have been recorded since. Of those I have not attempted to find out the regiments represented by them, but I know from having counted them hurriedly this morning that some 35 of the privates and from 6 to 8 of the officers have come down from the hospitals at Perryville, counting Harrodsburg, Danville, and Perryville-places lying 10 miles distant from each other, and the hospitals being in common. There are 45 from those three places that did not appear in the other report, and altogether there is an increase of several hundred. I do not know the exact number between this last report and the former for the reasons I have explained. The discrepancy would appear singular to the court without explanation, and I make it in justice to myself and the accuracy of the report.

Question. Do you mean to say that there were 5 prisoners, 3 from Corinth, 1 from Fort Donelson, and 1 from Mill Springs included in your original report as presented to the Commission?

Yes, sir; these 5 went into the number of the former report.

Question. Can you ascertain now whether those 5 prisoners belonged to the regiments which are not represented as belonging to the force which invaded Kentucky last summer?

I do not know what State the 3 from Corinth are from; the 1 from Mill Springs and the 1 from Fort Donelson were from Tennessee regiments. I remember that fact from having known one of them previously and the other remained in the city some time before he was sent off. It would take me some time to ascertain and answer correctly. I find (examining the report) that one of the regiments represented as not invading Kentucky is represented by other prisoners.

General BUELL. I wish you to get that information for the Commission, captain.

Question. Are the prisoners that you say came from Clarksville, from Colonel Foster's command, and perhaps from other parts of General Rosecrans' force included in your original report?

Some of them are and some of them are not. My impression is that there are not a great number of them. In addition to this report which I now offer to the court by


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