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Headquarters Department of the Missouri, Ks. April 15, 1867 Pawnee Forks 52 miles from Ft. Larned

General,

  You had [?] better instruct the Sioux & Cheyennes of the [?] who are below the Platte that they will be safe from my troops if they remain quiet about the [?] of the Republicans but not [?] come some [?] the Smoky Hill or Mail Route [?] along the River.  I have had a Serious complication in hand in which [?] Killer and other Sioux chiefs who are encamped here are interested.  They have 140 lodges and