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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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November 22, 1868.—The Cheyenne and Arapahoe delegation started to-day for their camps on the Upper Washita. [A true extract from my private notes.] HENRY E. ALVORD, Captain Tenth Regt. Cavalry, U. S. A. CAMP WITCHITA, INDIAN TY., April 12, 1869.

Seven days after this interview, Black Kettle's band was attacked by General Custer on the banks of the Washita, and their chief was killed.