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liable to storms and his animals will require all they can get.

    I had forgotten about your Scouts being enlisted for a year.  Discharge all but the old ones.  I will have the order modified.
    I hope Mr. Tanner gets off promptly with the dispatches for MacKenzie.  Send in your Map as soon as possible to Headquarters.
    Remember me most kindly to Mrs. Buell
                                     Very truly yours
                              (Sgd)  C. C. Augur
                                         Brig. General

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                                                                                                                    Decbr. 9. 1874.

MO. MIL. Div. [left margin] Dear General Sheridan, Chicago, Ills.

                      Your telegram of Decbr 1st. reached me in such an imperfect shape that I could not make much of it, except that you wanted the Camp on McClellan Creek established this winter.  I immediately answered by my telegram of the fourth, which I sent by special messenger and which I suppose you have received, it being too late to stop it, when I received your telegram of the 3rd. instant, which you stated was your final determination in the matter of winter operations.  I immediately ordered MacKenzie in with his command - this will bring him in about last of December - and shall arrange at once with him in person for starting with his command for McClellan Creek by first of March promptly.
       By that time too I will have a column of 9" Cavalry from Clark operating on the Pecos.  McCuskan is just down from the Cheyenne Agency and reports that Colonel Neill has sent a messenger to the Cheyennes to tell them to come in.  If this be so, it would seem to be a departure from the policy towards these Indians, that I had supposed to be authorized and prescribed.  The Indians here say that every Kiowa and Comanche would come in at once, could they be assured, the troops would not interfere with them on the way.  I have thought it best to hold out no inducement for these people to come in,
but to let them remain out until fatigue and hunger forced them in.
       They will be the better for it hereafter.  But if the Cheyennes have been invited in, I think the same course should be pursued towards the Kiowas and Comanches.  The Indians here complain too, that while their people here, who were captured or surrendered, are kept in confinement, the Cheyennes are permitted to live in Camp with their people.  I do not know if this be true or if it is very material if it is true.
        Although Lt. Col. Davidson desired to go on the Scout, which left here on Monday last and was originally ordered to command