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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, is situated about the center of the Kiowas, Comanche and Apache reserve.  I am having a military reservation surveyed of about eighteen square miles.  Maps made showing the lay of land, direction of streams, location of timber store and other building material, stone elevation of the Plateau or site for the Post, plans of buildings &c.  I have a saw mill already up and in working order, about 200 fine saw logs cut, and will soon