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To the gentlemen of the staff, generally, the commandant returns 
his thanks. Lieutenant Cruger has performed the duties of Quar- 
termaster and Assistant Commissary in the most correct and accept- 
able mannerj and, in addition, rendered important service, by volun- 
teering his services as an extra adjutant to the Missouri Legion dur- 
ing our operations. 
Lieut. Nogl, in discharging the duty of Adjutant, has given the 
most entire satisfaction, and the fullest evidence of his ability to per- 
form still more important service. 
It has fallen to the lot of Lieut. Morris to perform the most im- 
portant duties; and he has done so in a manner which cannot be too 
highly commended. When our boats were lost, and much of our am- 
munition either lost, or damaged in a great degree, we found it re- 
S laced, and well prepared by the activity and attention of Lieut, 
lorris, and that, too, without delaying the expedition a single hour. 
The Lieutenant's management and direction of the artillery would 
have done honor to a master of the trade. 
The men who were attached to the artillery have deserved notice^ 
and the approbation of their country. They have that of the colonel 
commanding, in a high degree, particularly Sergeants Lathrop and 
Perkins, the former of whom, with one of the six pounders, made very 
superior shots. 
The colonel commanding cannot dismiss this subject, without again 
mentioning his very great satisfaction with the gallant and honorable 
conduct of General Ashley and his brave and hardy little corps of 
mountaineers. Although for several days entirely destitute of subsist- 
ence, they persevered in " noble daring" without a murmer. The 
colonel commanding only regrets that he can offer them nothing more 
substantial than his thanks. 
H. LExVVENWORTH, 
CoL Commanding, 
A true copy: 
ChS. J. NOURSE, 
Mjutant Generalf Acting. 
No. 4. 
Head Quarters, Missouri Legion, 
Ricaras TownSf Jugiist 14, 182S. 
Colonel Leavenworth, commanding the 6th regiment, to the Chiefs 
and Warriors of the Ricaras nation of Indians, Greeting: 
Ricaras: 
You see the pipe of peace which you gave to me, in the hands of 
Mr. Charlonnau, and the flag of the United States. 
