Rvol L, Pt I to Benjamin C. Cutler, May 21, 1862

Lieut. BENJAMIN C. CUTLER, I have the honor to inclose reporti made by Lieutenant Wellman, First Cavalry California Volunteers, of his ineffectual attempt to escort Weaver through the Apache country, and respectfully call the attention of the colonel commanding to my indorsement thereon. Weaver is at this post soliciting an escort for another route. This I do not deem judicious to furnish. First, L doubt the man’s knowledge of the country that he now proposes to travel through, and second, 1 would prefer that the colonel commanding should determine what further is to be done in the premises. With that view, and for another purpose explained in a letter of equal date herewith, I send him back with an escort to headquarters.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant