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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 from Mckavett reaches that post.

         Half forage for thirty days should be taken, then load your train to its full capacity with subsistence stores of bread, ration, to be half hard-bread.
         From Concho take sufficient beef cattle on the hoof, to last your Command for thirty days.  Colonel McKenzie will be some days ahead of you, and I wish you to make at fast time with your command, and as practicable, until you join him.
         If possible, get good citizen-teamsters.  Get a reliable guide from Concho; I enclose a sketch of your route from Concho, the point /\\, is where you are expected to join Col. MacKenzie.
                                            I am Col., very respectfully
                                               Your obdt. servant
                                       {Sgd}  C. C. Augur
                                                  Brigadier General, U.S. A.

2 Enclosures. Commanding ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 570. MERRITT, [left margin] Lieut. Col. W. Merritt, 9th Cavalry, Commanding Fort Clark, Texas.

Colonel: