Question. Name the provost-marshal and his assistant at that time.

Colonel Gillem, Tenth Tennessee, was provost-marshal. I do not know what he had any assistant.

Question. What officer of General Negley's staff was performing the duty generally incumbent on the inspector?

I do not know of any officer performing that duty.

Question. Who was chief of General Negley's staff at that time?

I do not think he had any chief of staff; at that time Captain Lowrie was his assistant adjutant-general on his staff.

By the JUDGE-ADVOCATE?

Question. This pillage under the name of foraging broke out about that time, did it not; it was not known to the army before?

I do not know whether it was known to the army before. It first came to my knowledge in Nashville about that time.

Question. Had not General Buell been very strict in that respect, prohibiting such acts upon the part of his soldiers and protecting property generally?

I believe he had been very strict in prohibiting it. I have no personal knowledge except of what occurred at General Buell's headquarters when he was in the vicinity of Nashville and of the army that was left there.

Question. Did you not know that it was a matter of complaint among the officers, when they were sent out on these foraging expeditions, that they were embarrassed by safeguards distributed over the country?

I do not. I would also say that about the time that I received orders from General Buell to seize the subsistence stores in Nashville and in the vicinity we also received an order stating that all safeguards heretofore given by him would not be considered as protecting provisions and forage.

Question. Do you recollect the date of that?

I think it was somewhere abut the 1st September or the latter part of August.

Recross-examination by General BUELL:

Question. Is it not an admitted fact that such irregularities as you have yourself witnessed are more or less inseparable from the system of supplying an army by foraging, and is it not your opinion that they are particularly unavoidable in an army where the means of discipline are as insufficient as they are with ours?

I think it is a fact generally conceded that a system of foraging carried on promiscuously has the effect to ruin the discipline of an army; that it is unavoidable in an army where the punishment is so inadequate for grave offenses as it has been in ours.

General BUELL. There is one witness I would like the judge-advocate to call for himself, not for me. His testimony, I think, is necessary at any rate to give value to testimony that has already been given, and that is the man Miller, who has been said to have brought a message from Colonel Wilder to the commanding officer at Bowling Green. It is not to me a matter of any consequence whether the message was sent, as stated by Colonel Wilder, or whether it was delivered; but as a matter of curiosity; and as having its connections which may be of interest, if not of consequence, I should be glad to have him before the Commission.

The PRESIDENT. That is a matter which I feel should to a great extent be left to the judgment of the judge-advocate. I hardly think it is proper for the Commission to assume to manage his examination for him.