and that want of discipline continued in some regiments in Kentucky, and many grievous outrages were committed here in this State.

Question. Did this want of discipline, as you are pleased to term it, affect the efficiency of these regiments on the field?

Any want of discipline of course affects the efficiency of soldiers, but those men fought well. Soldiers of regiments under the best discipline fought better and were more reliable.

Question. General, you spoke yesterday of Stevenson's division, 15,500; where did that division come from?

I do not know. I never heard of it myself until about the time of that battle, and then I got it from some of the citizens of the country; and all I have said about the numbers of Bragg's army has been a mere guess, from hearsay and from such information as we could pick up. I would not prevented to oppose my opinion to that of the commanding officer, whose means of knowledge were so much superior to my own.

Question. Was this division of Stevenson's a part of Bragg's army that crossed the Tennessee River at Chattanooga and the Cumberland at Carthage?

I do not know anything in the word about Stevenson. I do not know whether there was such a man of whether he had such an army. I believe there was such a man, and my understanding was that he was not with Bragg's army, and had not come from Chattanooga with Bragg's army, whichever way they came. I received a letter from a very intimate an loyal friend, after the battle of Perryville, stating the rebel force in Kentucky,and Stevenson was set down as reputed to have 15,000 men; this friend said 7,000 or 8,000 in fact, and that they were at Danville at the time this letter was written. The letter was written before the battle by a person who passed through Richmond after the battle there to this place around by Lexington.

Question. What was the position of your command with respect to that of the enemy on the night of the battle of Perryville a little after sundown, say about 8 o'clock?

The right of my line had fallen back some distance; the line, in fact, was turned, pressed back; the left fell back perhaps 200 or 300 yards, the center more, to about the original line of battle selected that morning. The enemy, it is true, were near us; their cavalry were within 200 or 200 yards of our pickets; but we had a front to the enemy, and were ready to renew the fight had there been any effort to drive us from our position. The artillery on the left fired guns, under my immediate orders, till after dark, and the infantry were there to support the guns.

Question. Was your line of battle or any part of it changed between 8 o'clock on the night of the battle and daybreak the next morning?

Yes; I have already stated that, and that it was done under the immediate direction of General McCook, who ordered the change and directed where it should be, and then went to call upon General Buell.

Question. Do you know anything of General Mitchell's command having possession of the village of Perryville on the afternoon of the battle and what that possession amounted to?

I suppose it was between 10 and 11 o'clock on the night of the battle. As I was leaving General Buell's headquarters I met General Mitchell, and he informed me, according to my recollection, that he had approached near the town with his forces, and had himself, with his escort, rode into the town and got a glass of water, and was just from there. I do not know whether he had possession of the town or not.

Cross-examination by General BUELL:

Question. Has the removal of the death-penalty from the authority of our army commanders had any effect upon the discipline of our armies, do you suppose, general?

I have no doubt of it, and no one with whom I have ever conversed on the subject doubts it.

Question. Judging from the experience of all armies and from your