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[written upside down in the top margin] This is an extra - merely to say "how do you do" - B.H.G.
Fort Cobb I T Dec 3125 1868
Dear Alice,
Your letters of the 2nd 10th & 13th received - they came the 27th inst - after I had left here for the Witchita Mountains - having gone there in Company with Gen Hazen Gen Forsythe of Gen Sheridan Staff Maj Woodward and [?[ of the 10th Cavalry - to take a look at the Country and particularly the point selected by me last Summer for the location of a new Post - All men were pleased with the point selected and the surrounding country and verified my report and all I had said in regard to it - and the matter is decided and the Post is to be located there and the Indian Agency - also -