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Fort Sedgwick C. T. April 29th 1867.

General

                I learn that the arms for the 30th Infy have arrived at North Platte, & may be expected here in a few days.
  As the want of the Arms & train has alone detained Genl. Potter I presume we will start very soon after their arrival.
  I forward by this mail an application to be relieved from duty here in time to join my Regt. before it starts, & in leaving the Comd. of this post, I feel it my duty to give you a few points in regard to it, which will at least have the illegible  of being distributed.
   Capt. Hill [[?}}  is next in rank to myself & will of course assume Comd. (unless otherwise ordered from Hd. Qrs.)  He has a very excellent company (due to an enviable 1st Sergt) but is less fitted to command than any officer I have ever served.  He has been a gentleman & can at pleasure assume the outward manner of one; but he is capricious, overbearing, tyranical, a hopeless drunkard, with a most brutal temper.   To add to this catalogue a still worse & more deprading traid, I believe him to be dishonest.  At all events