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General:- In accordance with your personal instructions I have the honor to render the following report of affairs regarding Indians in this section of your district, for the week ending this day. | General:- In accordance with your personal instructions I have the honor to render the following report of affairs regarding Indians in this section of your district, for the week ending this day. | ||
On the morning of Monday, 19th instant it was discovered that about thirty lodges of the Cheyennes whose arrival under "Little Robe" was reported by you on the tenth instant had packed up very early and moved rapidly West through the mountains. "Red Moon" being the leader of the party. The chiefs of the portion remaining came to camp when sent for and claimed that the seceeders had only gone | On the morning of Monday, 19th instant it was discovered that about thirty lodges of the Cheyennes whose arrival under "Little Robe" was reported by you on the tenth instant had packed up very early and moved rapidly West through the mountains. "Red Moon" being the leader of the party. The chiefs of the portion remaining came to camp when sent for and claimed that the seceeders had only gone to Elk Creek on a buffalo hunt and would join the column of Arapahoes and Cheyennes en route for Camp Supply, on the Washita River | ||
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Headquarters District of the Indian Territory. Camp Witchita, Witchita Mountains. [along side of page] Alvord 1869 4-24 81 [number in circle]
Colonel and Brevet Major General B. H. Grierson. Comdg. District of the Indian Territory.
General:- In accordance with your personal instructions I have the honor to render the following report of affairs regarding Indians in this section of your district, for the week ending this day.
On the morning of Monday, 19th instant it was discovered that about thirty lodges of the Cheyennes whose arrival under "Little Robe" was reported by you on the tenth instant had packed up very early and moved rapidly West through the mountains. "Red Moon" being the leader of the party. The chiefs of the portion remaining came to camp when sent for and claimed that the seceeders had only gone to Elk Creek on a buffalo hunt and would join the column of Arapahoes and Cheyennes en route for Camp Supply, on the Washita River