SPECIAL ORDERS, } HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF NEW MEXICO,
        No. 34.              }             Santa F�, N. Mex., August 28, 1864.

    I.  Capt. Reuben A. Hill, with all the effective men of his company (K) First Infantry New Mexico Volunteers, will march with all practicable dispatch to Fort Lyon, District of Colorado, and there report for duty for sixty days from date of arrival at that post. This movement is considered necessary to render all possible help against the Indians of the plains who are now openly hostile to passing trains, as well as to the U. S. mails. The company will be provided at Fort Union Depot with 150 rounds of ammunition per man, and with subsistence to Fort Lyon, Col. Ter. The chief quartermaster will furnish the necessary transportation.
    II.  All of the effective men of Capt. Louis Felsenthal�s company (C) of the First Infantry New Mexico Volunteers, will proceed with all practicable dispatch to Gray�s ranch, on the Purgatoire River, or to some other more eligible point near that place, and will furnish escorts to the U. S. mail from Gray�s ranch to Fort Lyon and back and from Gray�s ranch to Mr. Maxwell's, on the Little Cimarron, and back. The company will be on this duty sixty days, and will be provided with subsistence for that period and with 150 rounds of ammunition per man.
    The chief quartermaster will furnish the necessary transportation and make provision for suitable transportation for the escorts and for forage. The chief commissary will give orders for such fresh meats may be needed by the troops who are thus detached.

Source:

United States. War Dept., United States. Record and Pension Office., United States. War Records Office., et al., "Price's Missouri Expedition," The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Published Under the Direction of the Honorable Daniel S. Lamont, Secretary of War. By Major George B. Davis, U. S. A., Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley, Board of Publication. Series I-Volume XLI-In Four Parts. Part II-Correspondence, Etc. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1893. p. 915.