Carson Ordered

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Texas–Indian Wars - The Civil War Years On The Plains: Delay of The Inevitable: 1861–1865 - First Battle of Adobe Walls
... Christopher (Kit) Carson, was given command of the First Cavalry, New Mexico Volunteers, and told to proceed and campaign against the winter campgrounds of the Comanches and ... On November 10, 1864 Carson started from Fort Bascom with 335 cavalry, and seventy-five Ute and Jicarilla Apache scouts ... Those Carson had recruited from Lucien Maxwell's ranch near Cimarron, New Mexico ...

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    “The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had ordered his punishment commuted to imprisonment ... and had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.”
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