Note (return) — VI. GENERAL PIKE IN CONTROVERSY WITH GENERAL HINDMAN
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men was impaired, their duties, especially the "fort duties, throwing up intrenchments, etc.,"410 had been very fatiguing. Pike had no wagons to spare them for the trip eastward. So many of his men had obtained furloughs for the harvest season and every company, in departing, had taken with it a wagon,411 no one having any thought that there would come a call decreasing Pike's command.