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.    The Secretary of War has the honor to subnit to the Committee on Territories of the United States Senate the accompanying report of Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane, United States Army, upon the so-called Yellowstone Expedition of 1870, and to recommend, for the reasons stated by the commander of the Department of Dakota and the General of the Army, that the report be printed for public information.

    SIR: The subjoined special order was received from your office by me on the 21st of August, 1870:

    In accordance with instructions from Headquarters District of Montana, Lieutenant G. C. Doane, Second Cavalry, will proceed with one sergeant and four privates of Company F, Second Cavalry, to escort the surveyor general of Montana to the falls and lakes of the Yellowstone, and return.  They will be supplied with thirty days' rations, and one hundred rounds of ammunition per man.  The acting assistant quartermaster will furnish them with the necessary transportation.
    By order of Major Baker.

    In obedience to the above order, I joined the party of General H. D. Washburn, en route for the Yellowstone, and then encamped near Fort Ellis, Montana Territory, with a detachment of Company F, Second Cavalry, consisting of Sergeant William Baker, Privates Charles Moore, John Williamson, William Leipler, and George W. McConnell.  The detachment was supplied with two extra saddle horses and five pack mules for transportation of supplies.  A large pavilion tent was

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1.  "1875" must certainly be a typo and should read "1870," but it appears as "1875" in the original document.

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