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Whit at May 26, 2020 02:24 PM

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Dodge's extract on page 10. This privileged position, and the nature of its services in the past, may be more fully appreciated when it is understood that it commanded, besides horses, subsistence and quarters, $10 per day ($3,650 per year), all expenses, and for special service, or "life and death" volunteer missions, special rewards of from $100 to $500 for carrying a single dispatch, and brought its holder the confidence of Commanding Generals, the fraternal refinship of the Commissioned Officers, the idolization of the ranks, and the universal respect and consideration of the hardy pioneers and settlers of the West. "BILL." Cody's children can point with pride to recorded services under the following officers of world-wide and national fame:

General Sherman
" Miles
" Crook
" Carr
" Auger
" Bankhead
" Fry
" Crittenden
" Merritt
" Switzer
" Tony Forsythe
" Duncan
" Rucker

General Smith
" King
" Van Vilet
" Anson Mills

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