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awaiting trial. We have had plenty of officers here for a Court at any time until now, and the whole business could have been finished up in a few hours. Major Litchfiled telegraphed to me {illegible] that the matter of the Court would be attended to but I fear it has been forgotten.

       I enclose with this a sketch of the new [underline] road from her to Fort Reno & Kearney.  For some unaccountable cause the road heretofore has passed beyond Rufus Ferry, up the Platte through the bad lands to near the mouth of Gap Creek before turning northward.  Now I am almost certain that the new road which I have ordered opened direct from the Ferry to Reno, will be a great deal better and some thirty to thirty-five miles shorter.  As I stated in my telegram of a day or two since, would not the garrison of Fort Casper be of          then, at or near the Ferry an on the main road to Montana?   I know that Gen.       has always inclined to Deer Creek but only for the reason that it was on the line of the telegraph.  I think myself that a guard and station for Telegraph should be