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an Expedition into the Indian Territory. The delay in starting your Column, is due to waiting for necessary additional teams required, and they have not yet arrived. I send to-day all at this Depot - Eleven - with twenty two new wagons for your use. The additional teams will be taken from Mckavett and Concho - Eleven from the former and ten from the latter - making thirty two, six-mule teams and one ambulance - this last to be taken from Concho. The teams from here leave to-day and will reach McKavett about the twentieth. Your command should be ready to move at once, on their arrival. You are at liberty, and I would advise it, to precede your column to Concho, and arrange with the Commanding Officer at that post, to have everything as far as practicable, ready to move, when the command from