Question. Were they not made so numerous and practicable by the low stage of water at that time?

They are nearly always fordable at that season of the year and at divers other points; at almost every considerable little branch that runs into the river it can be forded.

Commission adjournment to meet January 28, 1863.

CINCINNATI, January 28, 1863.

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

General J. T. BOYLE (a witness for the defendant), being duly sworn by the judge-advocate, testified as follows:

By General BUELL:

Question. Will you please give your name and position in the United States service?

J. T. Boyle; brigadier-general in the volunteers service. I am commanding at Louisville, District of Western Kentucky.

Question. Are you well acquainted with the Kentucky River and its various crossing from Frankfort up some 20 miles east of the Lexington and Richmond road?

I am tolerably well acquainted with the geography and topography of that part of the country. I was born there and lived there all my life.

Question. Mention the principal fords within the distance alluded to, as far as you know.

There are so many fords that I do not know that I can recall all of them at this moment. Ascending the river, there is Schryock, one of the crossings between Lawrenceburg and Versailles into Woodford County. There is McCowan's Ferry, where there is a crossing to Versailles and Lexington, from which there are diverging roads to these places; a crossing at Munday's Landing; at Oregon; at Brooklyn, which is on the turnpike road from Harrodsburg and Shakertown to Lexington. There is a crossing at Lewis' Ferry, on the direct road to Shakertown and Lexington. There is a crossing immediately at the mouth of Dick's River, which is only a few hundred yards above this. The next main crossing is at the mouth of Hickman Creek, on the Lexington and Danville pike. There is a crossing at the mouth of Sugar Creek; another at the mouth of Paint Lick Creek; another at Tait's Ferry. The next main crossing is at Clay's Ferry, on the Richmond road. There are several small crossings that I do not now remember the names of, used mainly for neighborhood communications between the two sides of the river.

Question. Are these that you mention good fords at a low stage of water?

Yes, sir; most of them are very good.

Question. And were they so in the month of October last?

I presume they were, from the low stage of water of water in the streams at that time.

Question. Will you give the topography of the country on the south side of the Kentucky River-the country between the Kentucky River and the Lancaster and Richmond road-bounded on the north by the Kentucky River and on the other side by the road from Hickman around to Lancaster and Richmond and then on toward Clay's Ferry?

The country is undulating; parts of it very much broken. There are a variety of streams running into the Kentucky River from the south-Silver Creek, Paint Lick, Deep Creek, Scott's Fork of Sugar Creek, another fork of Sugar Creek of which I do not remember the name, besides other small streams. The country is broken by these streams and is hilly, but on these ridges there are very considerable

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