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Michigan Cavalry Brigade
6th.—That there appears to have been available troops at or near the point where the consolidation was made, sufficient to have placed the required force in Utah, without including the Michigan Cavalry directed to be mustered out.
7th.—That the detention in service, by Major General Dodge, of the officers and men so included in the consolidation referred to, either through carelessness or by design, must be considered an unwarrantable and inexcusable act, and one productive of much pecuniary loss and suffering to the parties.
8th.—That the improper alternative offered to the officers and men of the consolidated organization so unjustly held in service, either to accept an immediate discharge or remain in service two months longer, and then be subjected to unreasonable hardship in traveling across the plains, a distance of about twelve or fifteen hundred miles, without horses or tents, induced them to accept terms the results of which were unknown to them at the time, but which afterwards proved much to their disadvantage.
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