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Tenth Cavalry exchanging with the Eighth. It that is abandoned and the Tenth remains with me, I shall place it at Griffin, Concho, McKavett Stockton and Davis: leaving the Fourth at Sill, Richardson and the Camp on McClellan's Creek: and the Ninth at Ringgold Barracks, Duncan and Clark. The Ninth and Tenth can clear the Pecos and Guadalupe Mountains and keep the country clear south and west of MacKenzie's old Supply Camp, where I shall keep a permanent Camp every summer. Davidson's Command is on its way in. Buell will be in about tenth of December. Please telegraph me on this one point of bringing troops in in December and getting ready to go out again in February. I will then send for MacKenzie and we can arrange everything about his Camp and Command. I am sending all the broken down horses and mules to Concho to save grain here and at Griffin.

    The actual change of stations of the Fourth and Tenth cannot be made before February or March, on account of lack of transportation, and then it will have to be done gradually, unless we hire transportation, which I wish to avoid.
                                                                           Very respectfully
                                                                           Your obdt. servant
                                                                      (Sgd)  C. C. Augur
                                                                                 Brig. General
                                                                                 Commanding

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Novbr. 29. 1974. MO. MIL. DIV. [left margin] Lieut. General P. H. Sheridan, Commd'g. Mil. Division of the Missouri, Chicago, Ills. Dear General Sheridan,