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Camp oct (?) 10th Cavalry- Troop (?) "K" - Near Fort Lyon, c, d(?) 22nd February 1869

My Dear General, we left Fort Lyon the 11th of last November, and arrived here on the 19th ()ist -. with the exception of a few horses turned over to us by the 5th Cavalry, we are now literally, actually dismounted - More than fifty of this battalion are frost-bitten, many severely, and some that must be discharged. It will require an entire refil of horses and equipments to enable us to locate the feud. The loss (?) of animals is due entirely to Penrose (captain 3rd Infantry) ad hoc in spite of earnest representatives, almost to protests, took the field without a grain of forage?, and thus, too, () he knew how red... and horses were in strength, and that it was the only thing