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that they are greatly exaggerated. I presume if any misfortune has happened to the command that I will soon hear the facts in the case from you or someone at Concho. I think it was a very injudicious move to send all the troops away from Fort Concho. If the matter had been left to me I should not have sent less than two companies out so far on the Staked Plains and would have retained troops at Concho to reinforce them. However the powers that be in or at the HdQ Dept Texas have given the order which has resulted in taking away all the troops at Fort Concho and left one Co. largely made up of recruits far out on the Staked Plains without any support. If there has been any disaster then responsibility