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                                                    Monday, August 17, 1863

Maj Gen James G. Blount Com'dg "Army of the Frontier"

General - Permit me to call your attention to the fact that parties of your troops (parts of the Wisconsin 3rd Cavalry, Company A 14th Kansas Reg, and others belonging to your command) have within the past week committed many deprivations on the private property of citizens of this nation living in the District of "Tahlequah" and vicinity and besides taking what vegetables and such property of little value to them as they wanted, have taken as near as I can ascertain fifty horses or mules. These people demand of me as their agent that I shall make every exertion to secure this property.

They desire me to so present to you that they are and ever have been loyal to the Government of the United States. That their _____ are in many cases all they possess and their only means of transporting their provisions.