special Order No. 61 may well be in the 15th K. V. C. order book, which so far as I know is still in the national archives and has never been transcribed. It is difficult to speculate what the order may contain, but often such orders in those books spcifically named men for duty at some location or received some form of punishment. As you state he was a new recruit it is reasonable to say he was being posted to Larned. During August 1865 into 1866 there were posting of units from various Kansas Cavalry commands to the frontier to watch after the indian problem with Pawnee and Cheyenne. There was frequent skirmishing in one form or another between the Indian Territory and Wyoming and Nebraska where Ft. Lyon was. These units stayed int he field until the Federal goverment reorganized the army in 1866, when they organized the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th US cavalry.