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designated as per heading of this sheet, & in addition to my other duties assumed in compliance with instructions, the Command of the Garrison at this point, Like yet very unlike Grant [5 words underlined] I too, was duly Inaugurated [underline].
Gen. Sheridan left me plenty of work to do. A new Post is to be built, upon the very ground selected by me last Summer, it is the finest location for a Military Post in the United States