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Headquarters District of the Pecos, [letterhead] Fort Concho, Texas, August 22d 1880. General Thomas M. Vincent,

               U. S. Army
               San Antonio, Texas.

Dear General:

    The "San Antonio Express" of the 15th instant contains an article purporting to be the statement of Judge Allen Blacker, reflecting upon the management of troops by General Grierson, while operating against Victoria and his band of marauders.
    The statements of Judge Blacker, if correctly reported, are so much at variance with General Grierson official report, that I desire to say:  from knowledge of the habits of Judge Blacker, they must either emanate from his seggy and alcoholic brain, or they are the wild imaginations of a scared man, while en route from El Paso.
    From my knowledge of the Country I know that General Grierson has reported nothing but