Louisville after the railroad was cut between Bowling Green and Nashville?

There was shipped between the 18th and 27th of August for Bowling Green and received there 300,000 rations salt meat, 80,000 rations of hard bread, 1,900,000 rations beans, 200,000 rations rice, 1,280,000 rations coffee, 1,129,000 rations sugar, 780,000 rations soap. That was all that reached there.

Question. What do you know, captain, of subsistence reaching the Army of the Ohio, while it was occupying Tennessee and part of Alabama, by the way of the Tennessee River?

A part of the time that the army was on the Tennessee in the vicinity of Pittsburg Landing and Bridgeport I furnished the supplies. The first shipment was made on the 15th of May, and I sent up to that army while they were there, 1,200,000 rations of slat meat. In round numbers the average number of rations I sent up the Tennessee River was 1,800,000 to the 13th of June, when I was ordered to send no more up.

Question. What is the weight of a single ration?

Gross weight about 3 1/4 pounds.

Cross-examination by General BUELL:

Question. Do the quantities stated in your testimony represent what was receipted for to you or what was actually received at Nashville?

What was receipted for to me.

Question. How is it in reference to quantities you have assigned to Bowling Green in that respect?

The same way. I have receipts for that amount. There was a large amount sent out to the depot which was never shipped and afterward returned to me from the railroad depot, and that particular part that was returned was probably the most essential to the movements of an army, namely, salt meat and bread.

Question. Is that included in the quantity represented as having been sent to Bowling Green?

No, sir.

Question. Were you frequently reminded last summer by communications from my headquarters of the importance of accumulating supplies at Nashville?

I was.

Question. Did you use all possible industry and energy for that object?

I did. While I was receiving those dispatches I went so far as to give some advice, to which I did not get a very satisfactory answer.

Question. If you regard that advice as of interest or importance to this investigation state what it was and what answer your received.

I found that by using all the energy and industry that I could I could not get forward the amount of full rations that seemed to be desired at Nashville, and I telegraphed to Colonel Fry that if they would not use more than half rations of salt meat, and would use less hard bread and more flour and procure their flour as far as possible in the country, I could easily supply the army; otherwise I could not see my way clear. He asked me in his answer what I meant by "not seeing my way clear." If I could procure the supplies here there would be no difficulty about transportation; that the quartermaster could furnish plenty, and the agents of the railroad assured him there was plenty of transportation if I would furnish supplies. That was the substance of it, though not perhaps the exact words.

Question. Have you those dispatches?

I do not know whether I have Colonel Fry's dispatch to me or not. I kept it in my pocket for a time and did not put in on the file. I have my first dispatch to him which called forth that answer.