SHERMAN, General to Abraham Lincoln, April 11, 1882

General Sherman to Mr. Lincoln.

Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt, through General McDowell’s headquarters, of a copy of the communication of March 1, 1882, from the honorable Secretary of State, transmitting a communication from the Mexican minister, reporting depredations in Mexico by Indians from the San Carlos Reservation, and to report that I have been in person to that reservation, as also on the Mexican border; that since October, 1881, there have been no Indians from the San Carlos Reservation in Mexico; that the Chiricahuas who then escaped fled from a supposed personal danger, and are now in Mexico, but that the Mexican military authorities were unwilling to permit our troops to pursue and capture them, expressing their ability to take care of them, and that since, up to the present moment, effectual measures have been taken by the military authorities of the United States to prevent any similar recurrences.

So far as my knowledge goes there is perfect peace along the national border at this time.

I have, &c.,