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just live. We have stripped the Posts above and now your turn comes.

         Send with these wagons all the Spencer Carbine Ammunition at your Post -- it is required for the Tonkawa Scouts -- send also if you have there three (3) hundred shelter tents, 6 Extra Wagon Covers, 300 lbs. horse shoes, nails, twenty axes, ten (10) shovels and as many water kegs as possible.
        If you cannot spare all this amount, send as nearly the amount asked for as possible.  Please start the teams with good citizen-teamsters, if they can be had, as soon as possible and have them and the property invoiced to the proper Officers here.  General MacKenzie is here waiting for his train from his old Supply Camp.  His Column left Concho on Sunday last.  Please tell the Officer, who goes in Command of the Cavalry to Whalleys, to be good enough to let me, and two Officers with me, mess with him on the way down.
                                           Very truly Yours
                                        (sgd) C. C. Augur
                                                 Brig. General
                                                  Commdg.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ L. R. from Col. MacKenzie [left column]

                                                                                Fort Griffin, Tex., August 20. 1874.

General C. C. Augur, Commdg. Dept. of Texas, General,

            Lieut. Col. Buell to-day received a copy of a telegram from Gen'l. Davidson to Col. Taylor, in which Gen'l. Davidson states that his movement will be delayed by affairs at Wichita Agency.
            It seemed to me possible that you might for the moment need more troops at Sill, so I have directed Gen'l. Buell to put the remainder of his Column in march for Sill tomorrow.  I send with him his train, so that if there is no need for him about Sill, there will be no harm done.  He can get his command together and make a start from Sill in plenty of time to leave Beaver Creek on the 18th.
            It is simply that he might be needed and that his command has the time to spare.  Please give the subject of Forage, Rations and other Supplies for Griffin attention, as it appears to be that there is now much danger of trouble about Forage at this place.  I have sent Lieut. Irvin to Richardson, and if he thought necessary to Weatherford and Dallas to hurry the Contractors, who from what I can learn are moving very leisurely when there is the utmost importance that they should hurry.  I send Gen'l. Buell to Sill because it may appear to you important to divert his column, while -- if this should not be the case -- ample time for carrying out the original plan will still remain.
                                                                    Very respfy, Your obdt. servant

(Rec'd Ft. Sill, Sept. 2.) (Sgd. R. S. MacKenzie

                                                                          Col. 4th Cavy. Commdg.