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During the summer of 1857 he had command of a reconnoitering expedition, consisting of four com panies, three hundred and twenty strong, with a train of fifty-six mule-wagons. He went up the Arkansas River, six hundred miles across to the South Fork of the Platte, to join Colonel Sumner. They marched over eighteen hun dred miles, and suffered innumer able hardships. They had one 12 quite severe engagement with the Indians. At one time they were obliged to live twenty days on fresh beef that had... been driven over fifteen hundred miles, and without any salt. They were all summer without tents, with but little bedding and few clothes (I copy from his letters). He men tions some sport in killing the buffaloes, which they encountered more than a thousand in a herd. They had a large variety of game, which would have been a great luxury with the accompaniment of salt, butter, or vegetables. He returned to Fort Leavenworth for the winter of 1857 and 1858. In the summer of 1858 he was ordered to Utah, and, as nearly as 13 General I can learn from his letters, he spent the time marching and counter-marching between Fort Eiley and Fort Laramie, accom plishing about as much as the King of France when " With twice ten thousand men He marched up the hill And then marched down again.
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