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the 5th & 38th Inf and 10th Cav under Bat Col Bankhead 5th Inf going relieve Bat Col Forsyth of Genl Sheridan's staff who with some 50 Kansas scouts has been corraled for 8 days on the dry fork of the Republican. Orders from Genl. Sheridam to go to their relief. The cavalry sent at once. Sept 26th We follow early in the morning and make 23 miles camping 2 miles below Arikare? fork of Republican and there some of the cavalry who return bring the following news. It was a party of 50 Kansas scouts under Col Forsyth who had been out looking for indians more than a month. On the 17th they were attacked by 500 or 600, and although they fortified themselves by digging, they did not cover themselves until Lieutenant Beecher 3rd Inf (who was on duty with them) Dr Moore and three men had been killed & Col F and 17 men wounded. The indians fought them