For some reason which the committee did not deem it necessary to explain, General Stone was not furnished with the names of the witnesses who had testified against him in the dark; their testimony was not submitted to him; it was not even read in his hearing.

He was simply informed by the chairman-- Senator Wade of Ohio--that "in the course of our investigations there has come out in evidence matters which may be said to impeach you.

I do not know that I can enumerate all the points, but I think I can.

In the first place is your conduct in the Ball's- Bluff affair--your ordering your forces over without sufficient means of transportation, and in that way endangering your army, in case of a check, by not being able to re-enforce them.

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