Question. State as near as you can.

There were troops in advance of General Crittenden when we crossed the river at Bowling Green.

Question. Do you know whose troops they were and their strength?

I had no information.

Question. Do you know where they went to?

I do not know, except from rumor.

Question. You know whose troops they were. Was it a heavy column of troops or a few?

It was a heavy column. I know that General Rousseau's force was there. After we left Bowling Green we were not delayed long. It was in the evening when we crossed the river and the next morning our orders were to march. It was about 3 o'clock a.m.

Question. What was the strength of General Crittenden's force at that time?

I could not give that with precision. There were some changes made in the march. My information would not be very reliable. I understood there were changes made in regard perhaps to his artillery. The whole artillery which we had at Cave City, according to the opinion I heard expressed by Generals Wood and Crittenden, was one hundred and twenty-six pieces. Colonel Wilder reported the enemy's at seventy pieces. I think General Thomas' division did not get up until Saturday night. General Crittenden's headquarters were right in the city, within a stone's throw of the railroad, near the reservoir. I understood General Buell was in the neighborhood at some place within a proper distance of communication. I was not personally conversant of the fact as to the precise point where General Buell had his headquarters.

Cross-examination by General BUELL:

Question. Your subsequent information confirmed your impression that the Confederate army was at Hartsville or that Bragg was there?

I did not understand that he had crossed at that point. That point I understood to be the headquarters of the rebel forces.

Question. Did your subsequent information confirm you in your opinion that head crossed at that point?

Somewhere in that region. I do not know whether I had any information as to the precise point.

Question. Was the information positive?

No; it was like any other rumor. It was a rumor obtained in Hartsville.

Question. Do you know what force the enemy had at that point?

Only by rumor; but I never did put much reliance upon rumor.

Question. Do you know what the enemy's immediate destination was?

I do not. I understood that there had been some change. I did not know anything personally of their movements except what I gathered from common conversation.

Question. You have stated that there was a general impatience in the army as to its movement. Did the impatience proceed from a knowledge of the movements of the enemy or was it mere impulse?

I did not hear much of the impatience until after we had the information of the attack upon Colonel Wilder at Munfordville. We were at Bowling Green and halted three or four days. A spirit of impatience began to develop itself in Cave City when we came in striking distance of the enemy.

Question. Was the position of the enemy known at that time?