General BUELL. I shall be prepared in a very few minutes. (After a pause.) You may proceed.

Captain JONES. I suppose the object of the question-

General TYLER. I wish the court may be cleared.

(The court was cleared.)

Captain JONES. I understood the object of the question to be to ascertain as far as possible the number of prisoners captured by the army under the command of General Buell from the time General Bragg crossed the Tennessee River at Chattanooga and from General Smith's army from the time it crossed the Cumberland Mountains till it went out of Kentucky and to separate the prisoners belonging to one corps from those belonging to another. The report falls short of that in not being able to distinguish the respective commands to which the different prisoners belong, I being not guided in my inference in that respect by the time and position of the prisoners when captured, and, as I stated in my examination, I was compelled to leave court to draw their own inferences from the same sources.

General BUELL. Has the witness correctly explained what was required of him?

The JUDGE-ADVOCATE. Yes, sir.

General BUELL. A part of the witness' answer to a previous question by the judge-advocate, which made my question appropriate and necessary, has not been recorded. The witness commenced with saying that if he remembered the instructions given, and he believed he did, though he had no copy of the instructions-and it will be remembered also that none could be found for him to refer to-then he could answer so and so. It was that which made it necessary that it should be explained wherein his evidence fell short of what might have been required of him. I now present to the Commission in evidence the statement which was furnished by Captain Jones subsequent to his last examination with reference to the number of regiments that are represented by the prisoners of war that have been brought into Louisville and sent off for exchange.

The PRESIDENT. (To the witness.) Is that paper introduced by you in accordance with the direction of the court?

Captain JONES. It is a paper forwarded by me to the president of the court as a portion of the papers intended to form the report that I was ordered to make when I was last before the Commission.

(Report referred to marked A of Captain Jones' papers.)

General BUELL. In this report (marked B) you have designated certain regiments as not being represented by prisoners captured in Kentucky. Please to examine that statement, captain, and see whether one at least of these regiments is not actually represented on the same report by prisoners captured.

Captain JONES. I find here the Forty-ninth Tennessee, which I have reported as not represented as among the regiments captured in Kentucky, represented by the prisoners from regiments captured in Nelson County; but whether that is a mistake in having it represented as among those not captured in Kentucky or whether it is a mistake in having it represented as among those captured in Nelson County I cannot tell, not having that evidence before me. In looking over it as hurriedly as I am compelled to do before the court that is the only instance of the kind I notice.

By General BUELL:

Question. State when those prisoners were captured which belonged