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Dear General, | Dear General, | ||
No courier has come in with mail since last Thursday night, and none gone out since Sunday morning. By the former I got a note from Woodward written that day at head of Mud Creek and it's answer I sent by the latter. Aside from the information you specially requested and which I sent enclosed, my note gave very little news, but now I have more. | No courier has come in with mail since last Thursday night, and none gone out since Sunday morning. By the former I got a note from Woodward written that day at head of Mud Creek and it's answer I sent by the latter. Aside from the information you specially requested and which I sent enclosed, my note gave very little news, but now I have more. | ||
Custer met "Little Raven" on Elk Creek with his bank of Arapahoes, sixty lodges, and they promised to come right in, but they did not move at all until I sent two Peneteghkas out to them, when, altho' they said they had "two hearts" in the matter, they finally concluded to come and are tonight within twenty miles West from this place. | |||
Custer went right on expecting to reach the camps of the Cheyennes &c. but after travelling 180 miles, almost to the mouth of the Sweet Water Creek - all the way up the North Fort Rec, he found that the Cheyennes, the balance of the Arapahoes, 90 lodges, the Kiowas still out the Quahade and Costcheteghka bands and the straggling Comanches, had concentrated, concluded not [underline] to come in, but to hold out as long as possible, and with | |||
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Headquarters Department of the Missouri
In the Field, Capt Witchita. In. Ty. Feb'y 9, 1869.
Tuesday night.
Dear General,
No courier has come in with mail since last Thursday night, and none gone out since Sunday morning. By the former I got a note from Woodward written that day at head of Mud Creek and it's answer I sent by the latter. Aside from the information you specially requested and which I sent enclosed, my note gave very little news, but now I have more.
Custer met "Little Raven" on Elk Creek with his bank of Arapahoes, sixty lodges, and they promised to come right in, but they did not move at all until I sent two Peneteghkas out to them, when, altho' they said they had "two hearts" in the matter, they finally concluded to come and are tonight within twenty miles West from this place.
Custer went right on expecting to reach the camps of the Cheyennes &c. but after travelling 180 miles, almost to the mouth of the Sweet Water Creek - all the way up the North Fort Rec, he found that the Cheyennes, the balance of the Arapahoes, 90 lodges, the Kiowas still out the Quahade and Costcheteghka bands and the straggling Comanches, had concentrated, concluded not [underline] to come in, but to hold out as long as possible, and with