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         To facilitate action in the matter, I will cause a copy of your letter to be laid before the proper Officer of the Government and invite action thereon.
                                                                                                                    I have the honor to be
                                                                                                                     Your Excellency's
                                                                                                                      Most obdt. servant

1402 L. R. D.T.'73. (Sgd) C. C. Augur

                                                                                                                           Brigadier General

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 452. ("Telegram".) MO. MIL. DIV. [left margin] May 22. 1873 Colonel Fry, Asst. Adjt. General Chicago, Ills.

                            A dispatch just received from Major Mizner at Fort Clark states that Colonel MacKenzie with six Companies of Fourth Cavlary and twenty five Seminole Scouts struck a camp of Kickapoo and Lepan Indians about eighty miles from that post, Early on the 18th inst., having marched all the night previous, killed, nineteen (19) Indians, wounded two (2), captured one buck, former Chief of Lepans and forty one women and children besides destroying two villages with their accumulated property.  Had three of his men wounded, one mortally.  He has already sent in over fifty captured ponies.

2146. L. R. D. T. '73. (Sgd) C. C. Augur Official Copy respectfully Brigadier General furnished by mail Commanding (Sgd) C. C. Augur Brigadier General Commanding __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 453. ("Telegram") MO. MIL. DIV. [left margin] May 22. 1873. Colonel Fry, Asst. Adjt. General Chicago, Ills.

                             I have reason to believe from outside information, though Mizner says nothing about it, that MacKenzie followed the Indians into Mexico and that the fight actually occurred there.

Official Copy respectfully furnished by mail (Sgd) C. C. Augur (Sgd) C. C. Augur Brigadier General Brigadier General Commanding Commanding __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________