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the belt. Your family all well. the boys are out occasionally and get some plover and have killed an antelope since you went away, regards to all. Yours [strike] Mrs. Dowd & the Baby wish to be remembered &c, &c, &c. Yours &c Robt. G. Swithers

To Genl. B. H. Grierson Fort Concho U. S. Army, Texas. August 6" 1880.

My Dear General.

                I want to congratulate you on your success, and hope that it may