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Dear General, | Dear General, | ||
Last Sunday I wrote you at some length regarding affairs here among other things telling you that two companies were soon to march for Fort Cobb. The order was issued on Monday designation Co. "M" 10th Cavalry and "E" 6th Infantry (Rife's) the latter to move Sunday [strike] Tuesday morning with an ox train of supplies the former on Wednesday morning with a mule train. Lieut. Lee commanding, Rife remaining here until Major Roy's arrival. | Last Sunday I wrote you at some length regarding affairs here among other things telling you that two companies were soon to march for Fort Cobb. The order was issued on Monday designation Co. "M" 10th Cavalry and "E" 6th Infantry (Rife's) the latter to move Sunday [strike] Tuesday morning with an ox train of supplies the former on Wednesday morning with a mule train. Lieut. Lee commanding, Rife remaining here until Major Roy's arrival. | ||
Monday afternoon an abundance of whiskey arrived at the Post, and Gray's room (with the neighboring apartments of Baker, Lee and Day) was the headquarters of the spree, as usual. A drunken row | |||
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Fort Arbuckle. C. N. Indian Territory. Sunday, October 11, 1868.
Dear General,
Last Sunday I wrote you at some length regarding affairs here among other things telling you that two companies were soon to march for Fort Cobb. The order was issued on Monday designation Co. "M" 10th Cavalry and "E" 6th Infantry (Rife's) the latter to move Sunday [strike] Tuesday morning with an ox train of supplies the former on Wednesday morning with a mule train. Lieut. Lee commanding, Rife remaining here until Major Roy's arrival.
Monday afternoon an abundance of whiskey arrived at the Post, and Gray's room (with the neighboring apartments of Baker, Lee and Day) was the headquarters of the spree, as usual. A drunken row