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MAJOR GENERAL  P. H. SHERIDAN

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GOVERNOR CRAWFORD

FORT HAYS, KANSAS, OCT. 8TH, 1868

Governor Crawford:

Gen. Hazen has informed me that the friendly overtures which were made to the Kiowa’s and Comanche’s at Lamed, on the 19th and 20th of Sept., 1868, have failed to secure peace with them or remove them to their reservations. I am authorized to muster in one regiment of cavalry from your state for a period of six months. I will communicate further on the subject on receipt of additional instructions from Gen. Sherman.

P.H. SHERIDAN, Maj. Gen., U.S. A.

 

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI IN THE FIELD, FORT HAYS, OCT. 9TH, 1868

 

His Excellency, S. J. Crawford, Governor of Kansas:

Under directions received through Lieutenant General W. T. Sherman, commanding Military Division of the Missouri, from the Hon. Secretary of War, I am authorized to call on you for one regiment of mounted volunteers to serve for a period of six months, unless sooner discharged, against the hostile Indians on the plains. I therefore request that you furnish said regiment as speedily as possible to be ren­dezvoused and mustered into service of the United States at Topeka, Kansas.

The regiment to consist of one Colonel, three Majors, twelve Captains, twelve First Lieutenants, twelve Second Lieutenants, twelve companies of one hundred men each, including the required number of non-commissioned officers specified in the U. S. Army Regulations (1868), the pay, allowances, and emoluments of officers and men to be the same as that of U.S. Troops.

The men will be rationed from the time of their arrival at the rendezvous and will be furnished with arms, equip­ment, horses and clothing from the date of muster into the service of the U. S.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully,

Your Obedient Servant,

P. H. SHERIDAN, Maj. Gen., U.S. A.