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`` POST ADJUTANT , FORT SCOTT , NEBRASKA . `` SIR , -- It is with extreme regret that I feel it necessary to report to the commanding officer certain occurrences tending to the overthrow of good order and military discipline in the command . Yesterday morning there arrived from the Ogallalla Agency , Trooper Brannan of Troop ` A , ' Eleventh Calvary , who had been ordered hither by Lieutenant Boynton as attendant or escort to the mail-rider . First Sergeant Haney reported to me at ten o'clock that the man had evidently been drinking on the way and was in an advanced stage of intoxication . On examination of the man I was convinced that he needed medical attendance rather than incarceration , and , instead of sending him to the guard-house , as is customary in such cases , caused him to be taken to the hospital , where under Dr. Burroughs 's orders he was put to bed and an attendant from my troop was detailed with instructions to see that no stimulants of any kind were given him . All seemed to progress favorably until shortly after taps , when Trooper Paine , the attendant in question , reported to me that Lieutenant Davies , Eleventh Calvary , entered the ward , accompanied by a member of the household of Captain Cranston , declared the treatment of the patient unjustifiable and ordered him , the attendant , out of the room . On Paine 's attempting to define his orders he was abruptly silenced and again ordered to leave .