War Department
(Telegram)

Washington D.C., March 15, 1876
From U.S. Senate
To Hon. Secretary of War
Alphonso Taft

Please send to Committee of Indian affairs immediately, the authority or directional under which General Custer's expedition to the Black Hills was made in 1873 and the time,
W.B. Allison

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