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In ad [strike 2 words] I do not think so at all. In addition to the fact that Gen'l. Sherman plainly writes "at Fort Cobb, or in that vicinity", it is probably [strike y and add e] that he has not seen your Report, has never been here, knows the place only by reputation, and maybe by "Fort Cobb" means, as most people do, the Washita Valley.

   He wrote too while under the impression that the Kiowas, Comanches and Apaches were in the war, while on the contrary those Indians (see my reports) are all in communication with General Hazen, and fast closing in around him with their camps, all well disposed.   The Reservation of these people, are per Medicine Lodge Treaty referred to by Gen'l. Sherman, is not here, but as follows,  its boundaries are, North. Washita River; East, the 98th Mer.-Chickasaw Line;  South, Red River & its No. Fork; West, 100th Mer. or Texas line.    Gen'l. Sherman, by his letter, plainly intends that these Indians should ultimately go onto the proper reservation.    Doubtless if he knew that they were now here, ready to go into their own country at once as is the fact, he would not object to their doing so.    And, as it is intended that the new post in this region shall be the location of the Agency and depot for these Indians, it is certainly better, that, if it can be, it be located at first at some centeral point in their Reservation rather than here, North of the Washita, not on their reservation at all.   But if begun here, here it will be