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day and reached Horse Head crossing fo the Rocks at 4 P.M. that evening where we encamped for the night it was my intention to take a small mounted escort from the Spring of "D" Company, but Keye's Company were nearly all out scouting and he could not well furnish me any more, as he had to have an escort ready for Cherman's train. I had around 15 men for this duty, but reduced it to eight, so as to leave sufficient men at the Spring for Camp Guard. So I was obliged to stop and come on this, with Sherman's train or face the music up the bloody unclear and on to the Guadalupe Mountains, with the four men I had with me when I left Concho. Six