Question. What time that summer did the Cumberland cease to be navigable?

My impression is that it was about the middle of July. I received stores by, I think or four steamers, which were left at Clarksville by the boats that brought them from Louisville, they being unable to get to Nashville in consequence of the insufficiency of water on the shoals. Most of these stores were brought up by light draught boats from Clarksville; some of them were taken possession of when Clarksville fell.

Question. What became of the subsistence at these various points you have enumerated when the Army of the Ohio fell back to Nashville?

They were brought to Nashville on the cars and turned over to Captain Little, in charge of the depot store-house.

Question. Are you certain that none of them were destroyed?

No, sir; I am not. I know that some of them were brought away and turned over to Captain Little, and I was informed officially by Captain Darr, commissary of subsistence, attached to General Buell's headquarters in the field, that he brought all the stores from Stevenson, Decherd, and other points.

Question. Can you state to the Commission the amount of stores brought back in that way to Nashville?

I cannot state from memory. Captain Darr or Captain Little's provision returns for the months of August and September would show the amount received from the commissaries in those places.

Question. How far were you successful in purchasing or seizing stores about Nashville for the benefit of the army?

I purchased in open market in all 8,000 or 10,000 barrels of flour, which was all i purchased. Captain Little, under my directions, seized all the salt meat, flour, and other subsistence stores in the hands of the wholesale merchants in Nashville and in the country as far as we could obtain them. His reports will show the amounts.

Question. How many days' rations did the army take when it marched from Nashville to Bowling Green?

My impression is that they were ordered to take five days' rations, sufficient for subsistence to Bowling Green.

Question. How many rations had you at Bowling Green at that time?

I do not know, sir. I was not in communication with Bowling Green; but I heard unofficially that there was a considerable amount of stores there, I think a million of rations, which were intended for Nashville, but were stopped after the railroad was cut.

Question. Can you give the Commission any information as to the condition of the country about Nashville in August as to subsistence of this sort?

I made frequent inquiries, as it was my duty to do, as to the resources of the country in the vicinity of Nashville for supplying the army with subsistence. From citizens of Nashville and in the country around I was informed that nearly all the hogs and beef cattle in that part of Tennessee had been killed the winter previous by the rebels and salted in Nashville, and that most of the flour was also used by the Confederate army previous to our arrival there.

Question. What do you know of your own personal knowledge of these facts?

I have no means of knowing except through inquiry. I have not been over the country, never 5 miles from Nashville, from the time I was stationed there. From the quality of cattle which was seized by the army that remained in Nashville after the departure of General Buell I think that the statement as far as regards the cattle is correct. As the cattle seized and killed by us were generally yearlings, mich cows, and bulls; not one out of 20 cattle killed was such as would have been received from regular army contractors, and not fit for beef. The average weight was about 300 to 350 pounds of the cattle seized.