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utensils with them ; the utensils should he such that the men can habitually carry them on their 

 own horses with convenience. 



I would recommend that the shelter tent be adopted as a part of our system ; a specimen, 

 slightly altered from the French, will he submitted with the saddle shortly to be forwarded. 



The best model for a cavalry stable should be adopted, determining minutely the interior 

 arrangements and the general plan as far as possible ; and all stables built hereafter should be 

 required to be in accordance with this plan ; the drawings and descriptions furnished by the 

 different members of the commission will afford the means of doing this understandingly. 



The English system for the transportation of horses by sea, as followed in the Himalaya, is 

 beyond doubt the most perfect that has been devised ; sketches and a full description of this 

 will be forwarded in a few days, and it is recommended that it be inserted in our regulations, 

 and adopted as our own system. 



There are other suggestions as to the regulations and the service which I have already made 

 in official and unofficial communications, and through Captain Sacket; I will here allude again 

 only to the propriety of inscribing upon the colors of each regiment the names of the actions in 

 which it has borne an honorable part, and of placing these same names on the army register, 

 at the head of the list of the officers of the regiment ; for few things are more important than 

 those which tend to inspire and jareserve a feeling of pride in the regiment, on the part of all 

 its officers and men. 



I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, 



Captain 1st Cavalry. 



Hon. Jefferson Davis, 



Secretary of War, 



