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(iiay's date. You need not take with you more than a supply for one 
month or six weeks. 
Wishing you health, &c. 
I have tlie honor to be. 
Your obedient servant, 
E. P. GAINES, 
Major General by brevet, commanding. 
Col. Chambekj, 
First United States* Infantry, 
A true copy. 
Charles J. Nourse, 
Adjutant General^ aiding, i 
Head Quarters, Western DEPARxiwENT, - 
J^Tear Louisville f {Ktf.) September 13, 182So 
SiRu You will receive, herewith, for the information of the General 
in Chief, a copy of a letter from General Atkinson, dated at St. Louis^ 
the 5th instant, reporting the arrival at that place, of the six compa- 
nies of the 1st infantry, destined for the Upper Missouri. 
I regret that it is not in my power to communicate the result of the 
expedition under Colonel Leavenworth; nothing having been received 
by me from that officer, since the date of the letter referred to in mine 
of the 30th of last month. 
Respectfully, I have the honor to be, &c. 
E.P.GAINES, 
Major Gen. by brevet, commanding. 
To the Adjutant Generax U. S. Army, 
Washington City. 
A true copy. 
Charles J. Nourse, 
tSldjutant General^ Acting. 
Head Quarters, Right Wing, West. Dept* 
St. Louis f 5th Sept. 1823, 
Sir : 1 have the honor to inform you, that two companies of the 
1st n'giment under Major Whartenby, arrived at this place, from Ba- 
ton Rouge on Friday evening last, and that four companies came up 
on Tuesday, under Colonel Chambers. 
