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Camp Witchita, Indian Territory. Wednesday, April 21 1869.

Dear General,

                  On Sunday I wrote you quite a long letter about my trip up the Washita with Jones, and of the necessity of my going East, the first of May.    Monday morning I sent a note by Pratt to be mailed at Fort Arbuckle today, in which I reported the sudden departure that morning of thirty or forty lodges of Little Robe's band of Cheyennes.