I, Solomon G. Kitchen, aged 45 years born in the State of Tennessee, appointed from the State of Missouri do solemnly swear,  that while I continue in the service I will bear true  faith and yield obedience the Confederate States of America and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against their enemies and that I will observe  and obey the orders of the President of the Confederate States and the officers appointed over me according to the rules and articles of War.
Sworn to & subscribed             S. G. Kitchen
before me this 21st
day of Jany 1865
at Washington Ark.
     Jno. J. Clendenin
     Major of the 5th Cavl.
     of Arkansas

We have direct information that Reves, Kitchen, and Freeman are at or near Cherokee Bay. Was reported with from 300 to 3,000 men. What they intend to do not known.

Sir: I respectfully beg leave to represent that the vacancy of Quarter Master in the 8th Mo Cavly - as also the vacancy in the 7th Regt Mo Cavy - has never been filled by appointment of the President.
Both of these regiments are now consolidated and without a Quarter Master in either.  Application has been made for an officer of the Quarter Masters Department and none can be spared.  I would respectfully recommend that Francis Hagan be appointed Quarter Master of the 8th Regt Mo Cavy which was organized on the 11th Dec 1862, and muster rolls forwarded through the regular channel, and that he be assigned to duty with the 7th and 8th Cons Regts.
Capt Hagan entered the service the 20th day of June 1861 and was recommended and ordered to duty as Quarter Master of the 7th Regt Mo Cavy on the 24th day of October 1863 by Col S. G. Kitchen since which period he has faithfully performed the duties of that office with marked zeal and ability - he is an honest, temperate and patriotic gentleman - eminently qualified for the position for which he is recommended - being the ranking regimental Quarter Master of this Brigade, he is at present acting Brigade Quarter Master, in which position he has by his industry and ability, won the favorable notice of the Commanding Officers.
He was born in Mo & lives in that state - is thirty years old, was by occupation a lawyer and served as a member of the Missouri Legislature from Jefferson County during the term of 1860-1861.  He has already filled a Bond as acting Quarter Master, which has been approved and forwarded to the Quarter Master Genls Office at Richmond Va.
I have the honor to be sir with high esteem

Favorably endorsed by Col Colton Greene, Commanding Marmaduke’s Missouri Cavalry Brigade, and Brig Genl John B. Clark, Jr., Commanding Marmaduke’s Missouri Cavalry Division.
 
 

COLONEL: The men that Lieutenant Rathbun spoke to you about have returned, and bring the following information: Bolin, 68 men, well armed and mounted, going into camp at Scattersville, 1st day of April. Some small fragments of companies, Bowles, 20 men; Falkner, who is now a prisoner, 40 men; Colonel McCray, 600 men, on Crowley's Ridge; Colonel Kitchen, 600 men, near same place.

SIR: Lieutenant Brown, of Kitchen's regiment of Missouri cavalry, while in discharge of his duty under written orders was captured in August, 1863, tried before a military court without any opportunities of defense being given, and sentenced to hard labor with ball and chain at Alton penitentiary during the war. He has already served out some sixteen months of his sentence. I have heretofore called your attention to this case without any favorable result. There are other officers and soldiers of the Confederate Army undergoing similar punishment. I hope it will not be necessary to bring to your notice any of these cases again.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

I learn to-night that Jeff. Thompson is at Harrisburg, but have not learned his force. Kitchen is near Gainesville with a scattered force of about 200. Bolin is between Clarkton and Kennett with about 100. It appears that they are plundering the citizens there in general. This information is not from any of my scouts. I expect some of them in to-night or in the morning. They are about Jonesborough and Chalk Bluff. Saint Francis 100 yards wide and swimming.

ED. COLBERT,

Some of my scouts are in and report Jeff. Thompson at Harrisburg with about 100 armed men and conscripting citizens; part of Bolin's men on West Prairie laying in supplies; Kitchen at home; Clark on Grand Prairie with about fifty men. Saint Francis River impossible to cross except in dug outs; overflows the banks for half a mile, but falling. It might be crossed in five or six days.

Yours, &c.,

What about the capture of Kitchen's train on Cimarron? What troops were with them? What Indians is it that are north of the Arkansas? Where do you locate the Comanches and Kiowas now?