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GENERAL STATEMENT.

HEADQUARTERS, U.S.A., MEDICINE BLUFF, WACHITA MOUNTAINS. Indian Territory, March 29, 1869.

MEDICINE BLUFF CREEK, Southern Indian Territory, April 9, 1869.

HEADQUARTERS, MEDICINE CREEK, Southern Indian Territory, April 9, 1869.

INTERVIEW WITH THE WICHITAS, WACOES, CADDOES, KECHAS, AND OTHERS, APRIL 7, 1869.

NOTES AMONG THE INDIANS. II. THE WITCHITA VILLAGE.

MEDICINE BLUFF, WITCHITA MOUNTAINS, April 4, via KANSAS CITY, April 20.

MOKE-TAY-A-TO, OR BLACK KETTLE—WHAT CAUSED HIS DEATH? Extract from Memorandum Record of Indian Affairs at Old Fort Cobb, Indian Territory, November 1868.

November 15, 1868.

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THE ORDERS UNDER WHICH GENERAL HAZEN REFUSED BLACK KETTLE'S OFFERS OF PEACE. HEADQUARTERS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI, ST. LOUIS, MO., September 26, 1868. General W. B. HAZEN, Fork Harker, Kansas.

BY TELEGRAPH. October 9, 1868. Major-General P. H. SHERIDAN, Fort Hays, Kansas. The following telegram is just received from General Sherman: CHICAGO, ILL., October

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI, ST. LOUIS, MO., October 13, 1868. Brevet-Major General W. B. HAZEN, Fort Cobb, (via Fort Arbuckle), Indian Territory.

HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHERN INDIAN TERRITORY, FORT COBB, November 10, 1868. Lieut.-Gen. SHERMAN, U. S. A.

HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHERN INDIAN TERRITORY, FORT COBB, Indian Territory, Nov. 21, 1868.

HEADQUARTERS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI, ST. LOUIS, MO., November 23, 1868. General W. B. HAZEN, Southern Indian Reservation, Fort Cobb, Indian Territory.

HOW A COMANCHE CHIEF IMITATED HIS GREAT FATHER.

AN INDIAN MAGNANIMOUS.

AN INDIAN VILLAGE.

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After Little Raven had got through, a party of twenty-six Southern Cheyennes, with their head chiefs Little Robe, Minnimic, and others, came up, and had a little talk. They are a fine-looking body of men, and when on horseback beat any thing in the way of cavalry I have ever seen.

They tell their version of General Custer's meeting with them.