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I shall start four Companies of of Cavalry and one of Infantry to the Little Wichita, and from there to Gilbert’s Creek. Tomorrow or Monday. My other two Companies of Cavalry have not yet arrived and I have not heard from General Reynolas as to his views. I am obliged to go to Cencho, as a witness before a Court, but shall go and return rapialy, then take my two other Companies up to Gilbert; unless otherwise ordered and shall have, in all, not much short of three hundred Cavalry. If Mr. Tatum does not object, I shall be ready to go and look for the mules and try and arrest Eagle Heart: Big Bow and Fast Bear, with your assistance. The true course seems to me to separate the Kurias, and those Comanches joined to them, as much as possible from the other bands. They are the most guilty, unclear, all are well known to be implicated. We are sure