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Tenth Cavalry exchanging with the Eighth. It that is abandoned and the Tenth remains with me, I shall place it at Griffin, Concho, McKavett Stockton and Davis: leaving the Fourth at Sill, Richardson and the Camp on McClellan's Creek: and the Ninth at Ringgold Barracks, Duncan and Clark. The Ninth and Tenth can clear the Pecos and Guadalupe Mountains and keep the country clear south and west of MacKenzie's old Supply Camp, where I shall keep a permanent Camp every summer. Davidson's Command is on its way in. Buell will be in about tenth of December. Please telegraph me on this one point of bringing troops in in December and getting ready to go out again in February. I will then send for MacKenzie and we can arrange everything about his Camp and Command. I am sending all the broken down horses and mules to Concho to save grain here and at Griffin.

    The actual change of stations of the Fourth and Tenth cannot be made before February or March, on account of lack of transportation, and then it will have to be done gradually, unless we hire transportation, which I wish to avoid.
                                                                           Very respectfully
                                                                           Your obdt. servant
                                                                      (Sgd)  C. C. Augur
                                                                                 Brig. General
                                                                                 Commanding

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Novbr. 29. 1974. MO. MIL. DIV. [left margin] Lieut. General P. H. Sheridan, Commd'g. Mil. Division of the Missouri, Chicago, Ills. Dear General Sheridan,

                                      I found Colonel Morrow, 9th Cavy. here with three Companies of his Regt. He was detached from Buell's Command on the 2. Novbr. with these Companies to follow a trail of Indians with orders to follow it until it run out or he found the Indians, and then to come to this place and await Col. Buell's arrival.  The trail ran out on head of Elk Creek, and the Indians proved to be those captured by Major Schofield's Command.  Of these three Companies between eighty and ninety good man and horses are available for further field service.
  Buell will be at his Supply Camp about 8. Decbr. - He has but about eighty Cavalry with him, and they well used up, I know.  I propose that Morrow with his ninety men shall meet Buell at his Camp and take enough of his transportation to carry thirty days supplies, and then proceed to scout along and South of Red River and over to Pease River and to MacKenziej's Supply Camp, and thence to Concho.

Buell with his Command and such of his Command as are here recuperating, with balance of his transportation, will go at once to Griffin to recuperate.