Question. Are you acquainted with the country on the south side of the Kentucky River between the Lexington and Richmond road, the Lexington and Danville road, and the Lancaster and Richmond road?

I know the country between Lexington and Richmond, that is, immediately along the turnpike road, very well.

Question. I mean the country embraced by those lines I have named.

No, sir; not very well.

Question. That is, on the south side of the river, between the Lexington and Danville road, the Lancaster and Richmond road, and the Lexington and Richmond road-that angular tract of country in there?

I am not acquainted with the road between Lancaster and Richmond at all.

Question. Do you know anything of the character of the country generally?

I have not been in that particular locality. I know all the country between Lexington and Danville toward Crab Orchard, leaving Lancaster to the left, or between Danville and Crab Orchard. I know all about the country between Richmond and Lancaster and beyond that, away into those mountains there, but have no knowledge of the road from Richmond to Lancaster. I never was on that road.

Question. Were you in Frankfort about the time of the battle of Perryville?

Yes, sir; I was there at that time.

Question. State under what circumstances, if you please.

I had been a fugitive from home about five weeks, and went there with General Sill's division as a sort of guide.

Question. Was there any apprehension among the people of Central Kentucky that Bragg's army would fall back into that region after leaving Perryville?

Yes, sir; a good deal.

Question. Was it the opinion of the people that that army had invaded Kentucky for the purpose of holding it?

Yes, sir; many of our best people were firmly of the opinion that they had found "the last ditch" up there, and would make a desperate fight there. That army took a great deal of property from some of our citizens; among other things about $80,000 worth of jeans and linseys. The parties to whom they belonged went from Lexington to Camp Dick Robinson, and from there to Danville, at which points they expected to see General Bragg or General Smith, or some of the prominent men, to get some evidence of the indebtedness. Failing in that, they came back, believing that there was to be a most desperate battle there or in the neighborhood of Camp Dick Robinson, and they would whip the Federal army, or if the Federal army whipped them they would fall back and take everything between Lexington and this place (Louisville), and this if they chose. Gentlemen who were there-friends of mine, and very intelligent men-satisfied me so well that they intended to make a determined fight there that I moved my family from Frankfort to this place, so that I could get across the river in case the war was transferred to that locality or its coming here. A great many people in my part of the State were induced to unite themselves with the rebel army because they were made to believe they would never have to leave the State. Other misrepresentations that were made in regard to the course that the Union army were pursuing as they came up induced a great many to run off and join the rebel army for protection. Among other things they told was that the Union army were taking up old men who had not joined their army and were making breastworks of them. There similar reports of the same sort.

Cross-examination by the JUDGE-ADVOCATE:

Question. These fords that you speak of on the Kentucky River are ordinary ferries, are they not?

No, sir; there is a ferry at all the principal crossings, and at others a ford that is used at all seasons of the year when the water is down.