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he would protect them until orders were received from Gen'l Curtis, and would then give them due notice of the result. He continued for a few days to issue rations to the needy, as Maj. Wynkoop had done. He then told them he could furnish no more supplies, advised them to remove to Sandy Creek - about 18 miles distant - and there send out their young men for Buffalo. Captasin Soule of 1st Colorado Vols. testified before the commission, that a few days after Major Wynkoop had been relieved, being out with a scouting party about 15 miles above Fort Lyon, he met - to his great surprise - Col. Chivington, in command of about 1,000 mounted men, marching toward the Fort. That the Col. asked him whether his arrival was expected at the Post? whether any Indians were there, and how many? That he assured the Colonel in reply that nobody at the Fort expected the arrival of such a force; that there were some Indians there who were friendly and were treated