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Fort Sedgwick C. T. April 29th 1867.

General I learn that the arms for the 30th Infy have arrived at North Platte, & may be expected here in a few days. As the want of the Arms & train has alone detained Genl. Potter I presume we will start very soon after their arrival. I forward by this mail an application to be relieved from duty here in time to join my Regt. before it starts, & in leaving the Comd. of this post, I feel it my duty to give you a few points in regard to it, which will at least have the merit of being disinterested. Capt. Hill ? is next in rank to myself & will of course assume Comd. (unless otherwise ordered from Hd. Qrs.) He has a very excellent company (due to an enviable 1st Sergt) but is less fitted to command than any officer I have ever served. He has been a gentleman & can at pleasure assume the outward manner of one; but he is capricious, overbearing, tyranical, a hopeless drunkard, with a most brutal temper. To add to this catalogue a still worse & more degrading trait, I believe him to be dishonest. At all events there was a vast amount of stealing done while he was Comdg. Off. Q. M. & Comdg. I think it would be most unfortunate, not only for the Officers & Men, but also for the service, to permit him to command a Post.

    Col Camp has arrived, & it is to be hoped the Q. M. Dept here may be put in proper shape, but in order to be so, it must be subordinate to the Post Commander.  Within the last few years, the Q. M. Dep. has made wonderful strides toward complete