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Take citizen teamsters, unless you have reliable ones from among the enlisted men. Take all the new Pistol and Carbine ammunition that can be spared from the Post.

         You may exercise your own judgment as to taking your Quartermaster Lawton with you.  It is believed the building in Fort Clark is so nearly completed, that it may now be left in other hands, at all Events affairs at Fort Clark must yield, if necessary to present Emergency, and whatever there is at that Post, that will be useful to you in your Expedition, you can avail yourself of.
         If, as has been reported, you had had another attack of inflammatory rheumatism, and you find yourself unable to take field, nevertheless give the necessary orders, to start the Companies under Lieut. Colonel Hatch. I will in this event meet him myself at Concho and organize operations there.   If, as I hope, the report is untrue, leae Lt. Col. Hatch in command at Fort Clark.