Early in the month of September, 1874, word was received at Fort McPherson that General Sheridan and a party of friends were coming to the Post to have a grand hunt in the vicinity.

They further proposed to explore the country from Fort McPherson to Fort Hays in Kansas.

They arrived in a special car at North Platte, eighteen miles distant, on the morning of September 22.
In the party besides General Sheridan were James Gordon Bennett, of _The New York Herald_, Leonard Lawrence Jerome, Carroll Livingston, Major J.G.Heckscher, General Fitzhugh, General H.E.Davies, Captain M.
Edward Rogers, Colonel J.Schuyler Crosby, Samuel Johnson, General Anson Stager, of the Western Union, Charles Wilson, editor of _The Chicago Journal_, Quartermaster-General Rucker, and Dr.Asch, of General Sheridan's staff.
They were met at the station by General Emory and Major Brown, with a cavalry company as escort and a sufficient number of vehicles to carry the distinguished visitors and their baggage.
At the Fort they found the garrison, under the command of General Carr, on parade awaiting their arrival.
A train of sixteen wagons was provided to carry the baggage supplies and forage for the hunting trip.

Besides these there were three or four horse-ambulances in which the guns were carried, and in which members of the party might ride when they became weary of the saddle.

I accompanied the expedition at the request of General Sheridan.