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Tenth Cavalry exchanging with the Eighth. It that is abandoned and the Tenth remains with me, I shall place it at Griffin, Concho, McKavett Stockton and Davis: leaving the Fourth at Sill, Richardson and the Camp on McClellan's Creek: and the Ninth at Ringgold Barracks, Duncan and Clark. The Ninth and Tenth can clear the Pecos and Guadalupe Mountains and keep the country clear south and west of MacKenzie's old Supply Camp, where I shall keep a permanent Camp every summer. Davidson's Command is on its way in. Buell will be in about tenth of December. Please telegraph me on this one point of bringing troops in in December and getting ready to go out again in February. I will then send for MacKenzie and we can arrange everything about his Camp and Command. I am sending all the broken down