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they have to stay away. They have taken as many as fifteen or twenty horses from here in the last five or six days. I am yours very Respectfully E. B. BAINES
No. 230 LETTER FROM C. H. CARLTON TO E. J. DAVIS
Headquarters Post of 1'.,ort Sill I. T. Nov 3d 1874.
To his Excellency
the Governor State of Texas. Sir:
I have the honor to inform you, that in compliance with instructions from Hd.qts. Mil. Div. Mo. I will send by Stage and Rail via Caddo I. T. on the 5th inst in charge of a Commissioned Officer and suitable guard, the Kiowa Chief Sa- tan-ta, now in confinement at this Post; to Huntsville, Texa:-. Please give the necessary instructions to the Warden of the Penitentiary, for his re-incarceration before, his arrival
very respectfully
Your ob't serv't C. H. CARLTON Capt 10th Cav'y Com'dg Post
[Endorsed] Capt,
Yours of Novr 3rd recd. I had.been kindly notified by Lt. Gen. Sheridan of the fact that the Kiowa Chief Santanta would be returned to the" penitentiary of Texas and accordingly had made arrangements for his reception and incarceration be• fore the receipt of yours- Since then the p1·isone1· has been received and properly lodged in the penitentiary.
Very Respy Govr.
Ans. Nov. 17. 1874 D
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