Question. Present both of them to the Commission or whatever you have.

I have merely my own dispatch. I have been hunting for his reply. Mine was in answer to a dispatch from him asking how many rations I had on the way to Nashville and was as follows:

"JULY 15.

"I have now 800,000 full rations on the way to Nashville, half by boat and half by rail. Have shipped to Nashville since July 1 over 1,000,000 rations; shipped from the middle to the end of June 1,000,000 rations. Captain Macfelly calls for 2,000,000 a month. You must use much less hard bread, only half salt meat, or the stores cannot be transmitted. If you make the troops use flour and buy it where you are I can easily feed the army, but at present rates of hard bread and salt meat I cannot see my way clearJanuary

Question. What proportion of the rations does that dispatch propose should be procured in the country?

I think it would take out fully one-third, possibly two-fifths, in the gross weight of the rations if it had been arranged for the rations to be drawn in that manner.

Question. Make the calculation, if you please, according to the suggestion in your dispatch. Does that make about 1 3/4 to be procured there?

It leaves about 1 7/10 to be procured there.

Question. Did you know what the resources of the country were when you made this suggestion, and was it only a suggestion or was it advice?

I did not know. I gave the suggestion as advice.

Question. Why would you advise what you did not know to be practicable?

Because I was convinced it would be impossible to meet all the demands made for provisions from Nashville.

Question. And suppose they could not be met there, would you still advise that they should be met there?

I had no advice to give beyond that. I merely gave it as advice. I saw the difficulties at this end to the line and I thought I appreciated them, and I thought I would advise them to do as much as they could in procuring supplies. I did not know what the capacities of the country were. Captain Macfeely was almost daily writing and telegraphing to furnish supplies to him, but I could not get them down.

Question. Do you know whether any supplies were issued to troops along the line from the stock that was sent to Bowling Green?

I do not recollect that it was used at all for that purpose.

Question. Where do you procure provisions, particularly the bread and meat, that you send for the use of the army in Tennessee?

Principally in Cincinnati, Chicago, Saint Louis, Louisville, and the towns along the Ohio River.

Question. Do you procure large quantities in Kentucky?

No, sir; the greater part comes from beyond Kentucky.

Question. Is it because the supplies are not to be had in sufficient quantity that you procure them beyond the limits of Kentucky?

I do not know that the kind I require could be procured in Kentucky in such large quantities as I required to use them; certainly not of hard bread.