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FREEDMEN'S BUREAU,
PROVOST MARSHAL'S OFFICE,
Meridian, Miss., ^[[8th August]] 1865.
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Stuart Eldridge
A A G. Freedmens Bureau
Vicksburg Miss

Sir
I would respectfully state that I have between fifteen & twenty Freedmen in Hospital, without Medical attention, the Surgeon having been made Medical Director of this District, and ordered to Jackson, leaves only one Asst Surgeon at Meridian.

Can I be authorized to employ a Citizen Physician to visit my sick.

Very Respectfully
Your obt svt
[[signature]] C. W. Clarke [[/signature]]
Leut & P. M. Freedmen 

Transcription Notes:
changed "C.N." to "C.W." Clarke