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Fort Gibson CN May 18th 1872 Dear Alice- Mail in again and no letter from you - I sent a dispatch to the Railroad Station this evening by detachment and was in hopes they would get back to-night but it is now 11 O.Clock and I can only think will not be here before morning. When the Post Master or Mail Carrier left Muskogee with the mail to-day the mail from the South had not arrived there and if the detachment had gotten back I might have a letter from you as I directed the Sgt in charge to get the mal if it had come in there from the South. I received a dispatch