Fort Cobb (I. T.)

Handwritten and signed letter from Charles Gilbert to his nephew "How". How is almost certainly Howard Stanbury Abbot.

"...Well now then for the [hunt]--The party was made up of three officers and seven soldiers with a wagon tents [etc] we were mounted on mules and ponies and had two first rate dogs....This day we made a long journey about thirty miles seeing buffalo deeer antelope and the like--but we killed only three buffalo...."

Handwritten and signed letter from Charles Gilbert to "Sister".

1"....Last year I was at For Fort [Clark] near the Rio Grande and now I am north of Red River. Look at the map and where the 99th meridian crosses the False Washita is the place...The indians attacked our wagons from Camp [Cooper] and drove off half the [---]....."