General Dickinson and his family passed here last week on
their way to his new station.
CAMP SUPPLY, INDIAN TERRITORY,
February, 1873.
UPON our return from the Cimarron we found a dear, clean house all
ready for us to move into. It was a delightful surprise, and after the
wretched huts we have been living in ever since we came to this post,
the house with its white walls and board floors seems like fairyland.
It is made of vertical logs of course, the same as the other quarters,
but these have been freshly chinked, and covered on the inside with
canvas. General Bourke ordered the quartermaster to fix the house for
us, and I am glad that Major Knox was the one to receive the order,
for I have not forgotten how disagreeable he was about the fixing up
of our first house here. One can imagine how he must have fumed over
the issuing of so much canvas, boards, and even the nails for the
quarters of only a second lieutenant!
Many changes have been made during the few weeks General Bourke has
been here, the most important having been the separating of the white
troops from the colored when on guard duty. The officers and men of
the colored cavalry have not liked this, naturally, but it was
outrageous to put white and black in the same little guard room, and
colored sergeants over white corporals and privates.
