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OFFICE OF J. S. EVANS & CO. MILITARY AND INDIAN TRADERS, Fort Sill, Indian Territory, Sept. 9, 1874

Dear General

                          We start in the morning, 6 cos. cavalry, 3 of infantry, 45 wagons and 40 Indian scouts.  We go to Fort Cobb, thence up the Washita and thence as circumstances dictate, perhaps to Sweet Water & McClellan Creek.

Pratt is begging for the recruiting detail, has even had the brass to interview me about it, but I think like you, he has no claims for it or on you for anything. Kelly is crazy for it, Beck I believe, also wants it, though he has said nothing to me about it. I have heard no one else express a wish.