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Fort Thomas, Ariz. August 14 1887. My Dear General:

                        I desire to thank you for the copy of your endorsement on my renewed application for retirement.  I would rather do anything else than leave the service, but something seems to break me up pretty rapidly in this climate, and especially at that place of San Carlos, and of General Miles had not have been so persistent in keeping my troop there simply because I was junior to Pierce I might have