CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Letter from General W.T.Sherman, and from General J.F.Rusling.
In closing the life of Kit Carson, it will be appropriate to add two letters, which were furnished at our request: 912 GARRISON AVENUE, ST.

LOUIS, MO., JUNE 25, 1884.
"Kit Carson first came into public notice by Fremont's Reports of the Exploration of the Great West about 1842-3.

You will find mention of Kit Carson in my memoirs, vol.I, p.

46, 47, as bringing to us the first overland mail to California in his saddle bags.

I saw but little of him afterwards till after the Civil War, when, in 1866, I was the Lieutenant General commanding the Military Division of the Missouri, with headquarters in St.Louis, and made a tour of my command, including what are now Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico.