[undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] — has been forwarded with the lines — [undecipherable] have a good account of [undecipherable] in your next — Captain [undecipherable] well knows the reason that his Company were not [undecipherable] supplied with Clothing — In the first place the[y] were not in store, and in the next his orders [undecipherable] to march as [tight/light] as possible, that the detachment [undecipherable] might not be detained on the road — Troops [undecipherable] a full supply of Clothing is received a quantity [undecipherable] be [sent] to you as usual to meet such calls — The Secretary of War's report relative to the Army has been read in Congress and committed — but not yet published — Great alterations are contemplat[ed] I am Sir Your Most Obedient Servant [Signature: undecipherable] [undecipherable: probable reading — Major Isaac Craig]