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a copy of all requisitions approved by [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] the [[insert]] different [[/insert]] Surgeons in Chief, and he is in close communication with the Surgeon General of whom he can obtain the cost prices. With these facilities he can approximate much nearer the value of medicines issued than any Surgeon in Chief. If it is required of me I will make a guess, but that guess will be so wide of the truth that it will be of no value for statistics.

Refugees.

The forgoing report refers to Freedmen only. The Refugees have required but little at our hands, and only at Vicksburg.

Here a hospital or "Home" was established for them by the Freedmen's Department before the Bureau was organized. We have continued it with a surgeon in charge and the accommodate the Post Commissary I have consolidated it with the Freedmen's hospital, making it a ward of the same. The number under treatment has varied from twenty five to thirty eight, and the same surgeon has attended the Freedmen's Orphan Asylum, prescribing for those that were not confined to bed for any considerable length of time and sending