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ambulances for the sick will be sufficient.

I think all the harnesses, whips, curry combs, brushes, sponges etc had better be sent out with them, as there is more or less delay in procuring those things here & all the harnesses I have seen here are much inferior to our Maine harnesses. The harnesses should be very similar to those used by our lumbermen for logging. It is very desirable indeed that the teams should be furnished us soon as possible in now that we may be able to move without any outside assistance.

    Col. Wildes informed me that the fourth

Rgt b[id?] on some tents for me, but I have just seen their Quartermaster & he informs me he has no tents for us.

    We cannot procure here such tents as

we need. We must have a large hospital tent with a fly - also a guard tent capable of holding forty to fifty men. The Quartermaster needs two store tents. The only tents the Gen'l have on hand are small ones, not fit for the purposes above specified. We ought to have