Question. Was the army during that time provided in whole or in part with an outfit of light cooking utensils? If so, please state whether you consider it was necessary to enable the army to move with the limited transportation with which it did move.

By an order it was required that the troops should be supplied with so many coffeepots, mess pans, &c., to be always carried by the men in the army, and the transportation was reduced. I thought then, and I am sure now, that the arrangement was a very excellent one, as the men were always prepared to make coffee and cook meat whether the train was with them or not. I think that was necessary to enable the army to move with facility, and I look upon the wagon trains of the United States Army as a great impediment to its movements and a nuisance.

Question. Considering the work that was done, paying, feeding, and supplying the troops with these various essentials, and the ingrafting of a large number of raw troops into the army, amounting almost to a reorganization of the whole, do you think that any time was wasted before the army marched from Louisville against the rebel army in Kentucky?

I know there was none, for I was myself at work as hard as I could to obtain the necessary supplies, and thus had an opportunity of knowing that no time was lost.

Commission adjourned to meet Thursday, January 22, 1863.

LOUISVILLE, January 22, 1863.

Commission met pursuant to adjournment. All the members present; also the judge-advocate and General Buell.

General ROUSSEAU'S testimony continued, as follows:

By General BUELL:

Question. Were you in command at Bowling Green on the 13th and 14th of September last?

I was senior officer there for two or three days about that time. General Smith had been placed in command of the post and was supposed to be acquainted with the routine of matters, and I thought it best not to change the command, though all matters of importance requiring action were referred to me, I believe, as commander of the forces there.

Question. Do you remember the arrival of any persons at that place on the days mentioned with information from Munfordville? If so, please state who they were and all the information they gave you.

While I was there several persons came from Munfordville or the vicinity with information of the state of matters at Munfordville. O do not recollect the name of any person except a Mr. Miller, who formerly kept a saw-mill at Munfordville. Somebody from that vicinity had seen me before I saw Miller; I think two or three had called on me from the neighborhood of Munfordville to give me information. I recollect that my information first was that Munfordville was taken. I do not recollect who gave that information now, but I told General Buell on the morning of this arrival at my headquarters, to which he came directly on reaching Bowling Green. I perhaps gave him that information and referred him to the person or persons who gave it. My recollection on those points, however, is not clear; rather indistinct. I am sure that I got the information that Munfordville was taken. Afterward that report was contradicted by Mr. Miller, as I recollect it, but I do not know how long after.

Question. Of those persons had come to you with any pressing and important message do you thing the impression would remain on your mind? I will thank you, general, to refresh your memory as well as you can, and state to the Commission anything in connection with the arrival of those messengers or scouts that made an impression upon you which you can now recollect.

I recollect the information given much better than I do the parties who gave it.

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