Question. Are you acquainted with that route personally?

Yes, sir.

Question. Are not 2 or 3 miles of that Clay road, the other side` of the river, almost impassable for artillery?

Not unless it has become so within the last year or so. It is a turnpike road.

Question. Are you sure it is a turnpike road the whole distance over that ferry?

I have not been over it for a long time, but it was a turnpike when I went over it.

Question. Is there not a dirt road connected with the turnpike?

There is a dirt road passing from the ferry up to the ford. Where the river becomes fordable it is a dirt road, but I would suppose perfectly passable as a turnpike road at that season of the year, for it was a season when such roads are good.

Question. What is the character of the country on the south side of the bank of the Kentucky River, along the face of those ferries, 2 or 3 miles back from the river?

For a mile or two it is hilly and broken in most places; the lands then are undulating and rolling and among the best lands in Kentucky at most of those crossings. At some of the points where the cliffs of the river are entirely precipitous the level land commences within a few hundred yards of the top of the precipices, and it has the general level of the country. Some of the richest lands of the State run within a hundred or two yards of the precipitous cliffs of the Kentucky River, but generally for a mile or two off it is rugged, and where these roads go down in the valleys it is more rugged, because it is broken by those streams, and at most of the crossings I have spoken of it is rugged and broken for 2 or 3 miles.

Question. Are the banks of the Kentucky River, as you have described them in your last answer, fit for encamping a large army?

I suppose at most of the places within half a mile to a mile of the river, extending back, you will find camping ground for considerable armies. At the mouth of Hick man, I suppose, within a mile of the bridge over the Kentucky River and on a direct line not more than half a mile or a little more and extending back indefinitely for any distance to Nicholasville, would be as fine a quality of camping ground as could be found in Kentucky. It is the same at Tait's Ferry. At the crossing on the road to Harrodsburg it is much farther off from the river.

Question. Which crossing is that?

That is the crossing by Brooklyn, the turnpike road from Lexington to Harrodsburg; it is farther off where the camp could be accommodated. At the crossing on the direct road to Shakertown camps could be formed up to the tops of the precipitous cliffs where the towers of the suspension bridge are built. There would be some want of water, but it could be obtained by drawing it from the river or from a stream or creek which is a mile or two back.

Question. Do you think that at the place where the towers of the suspension bridge are built there is camping ground on the south bank of the river?

I think, sir, you could commence within 50 yards of the towers and extend back to Lexington. The width of the ground as you approach the river becomes narrow, but it opens as you go back. Bradshaw's whole farm, which is in the immediate vicinity, would answer for camping purposes.

Question. Have you any reason to believe that General Bragg expected a large accession to his army from a general rising of the people of Kentucky to his assistance?

I do not know that I could say that I have any well-founded reasons, though I have a belief that they expected a considerable rising in Kentucky in their favor. I believe that the Kentuckians who were with him and the domestic rebels at home had made extravagant and exaggerated representations in regard to the matter. How far Bragg was possessed of such a belief and how far such representations influenced him I have no knowledge, but I would presume naturally that he was to some extent influenced by them.