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just returned from the frontier" cannot change the fact one particle. The troops engaged do not object to criticism when it has some basis but they most decidedly object to gratuitous abuse from one, who I venture to assert was not within three scene of operations and has Pecos river.

    The newspapers, and gentlemen who seem so anxious

to censure the troops for not capturing or entirely distroying the Indians, do not stop to consider the difficulties to be encountered in consummating this desirable result. They appear to be and extent of the territory to absence of water, except at the difficulty of transportation poverty of the country in supplies for men and animals inaccessible mountain ranges a thousand and one other obstacles