Letter

SHERIDAN, Lieutenant-General Commanding to Adjutant-General’s Office , Washington , February 1, 1872 . Official copies: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant-General, January 25, 1872

[Third indorsement.]

It has been the practice of the Indians on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande to depredate in Texas for many years. As no harm has ever come to any of them for doing so, either from the Mexican government or our own, it is liable to continue.

P. H. SHERIDAN,
Lieutenant-General Commanding.

Official copies:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Adjutant-General

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.