field far better than they fight in any other way. They are better drilled as heavy infantry than they are as skirmishers, infinitely. This, I think, the rebels understand. Many prisoners I have taken intimated the fact to me in talking to me about the progress of battles.

By General TYLER:

Question. In your testimony yesterday you said that the necessaries of life about Huntsville were brought from the North at the time you were there; what do you understand by the necessaries of life? Please enumerate the articles that were brought from the North.

I understand by the necessaries of life sugar, coffee, bread, meat, rice, &c.

Question. Was there not great want of fresh provisions-beef (cattle on the hoof), pork, &c.?

I think there was. North Alabama is not a cattle country, and when our supplies got low there I sent out and brought in all the cattle for many miles around, under the orders of General Buell-milch-cows and yearlings and everything I could scrape up.

Question. Over what extent of country?

Some 6 to 10 miles, I suppose, in every direction. When I say all, I do not mean every one. The order to the commissary was to get all he could. They were, however, very inferior cattle, small and thin. I think we left without using all the cattle while there. Several hundred, I think, were sent up to the troops at Stevenson on the cars. O don't think the supply of beef was worth talking about. I cannot tell whether it was reduced by supplying the army under General Mitchel before I got there, which I think probable. Whether his communications with his of supplies was interrupted he supplied himself from the country, as I was informed, and so did we under like circumstances. There was, I believe, very little pork in the country. I think it is a very poor hog country; poor probably for the reasons already stated and because attention was not turned in that direction.

Question. What was the condition of the summer crops-corn, wheat, &c.-so far as they could be made useful to the army, at the time you were passing down?

I did not go from Huntsville to Stevenson, but the corn crop seemed to be pretty good around the country about Huntsville, and I saw more corn than I excepted to find in portions of Tennessee and Alabama. An order came from Captain Chandler, quartermaster to General Buell, directing us, when our supplies got short there, to have all the corn stripped by the farmers, so as to make it fit for the use of the army. It was not sufficiently cured without stripping it. The work was begun, and we sent out and procured a good deal of corn, but shortly afterward we evacuated the place and I do not know what else was done.

Question. You spoke yesterday in your testimony of the discipline of the army having been weakened by the ingrafting on it of new regiments. How many new regiments were put into each brigade?

I am not sure that I know; but I had three in my own division, one regiment added to each brigade, and I think that was the number added to each brigade in the army.

Question. What proportion, then, of your division consisted of new soldiers?

It is difficult to say. The Ninety-fourth Ohio had lost 200 or 300 Lexington, Ky., taken by Kirby Smith's forces, and I do not recollect the number of the other regiments. I suppose 1,600 to 1,800 raw troops were added to my division, and I suppose my division amounted to between 7,000 and 8,000, artillery, cavalry, and all included. Considerable numbers of the raw troops of the army gave out on the road or straggled and did not go into battle at all, the hot weather, want of water, and hard marching rendering it almost impossible to keep them up.

Recross-examination by General BUELL:

Question. Do you know of any division or of any brigades in the other divisions that were composed entirely of raw troops; Sheridan's division, for example?

I think so. It must have been so, for we had a great many more raw troops than could have gone into the army a regiment to a brigade, as I understood it.