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                                                               In Camp on East Branch of 
                                                               Beaver Creek, I. T.
                                                                          Jany. 6th (8.P.M.) 1869

My Dear Alice,

                   I wrote to you last from Fort Cobb Jany. 1st & 2nd - also note to John dated 2nd inst.  I left Fort Cobb Jany 3d with the 4 Co. of the 10th Cavalry, marching south.  I left the command this morning encamped at Chandlers Old Ranch  which is about 9 miles north of Medicine Bluff.  I am now out with a detachment of 6 men & Wagon Train on route to Arbuckle, opening a new and more direct road from site of New Post to Arbuckle  This point is about 15 miles from and East of the Site for the new Post and about 50