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NARA 714

Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 
Office [[strikethrough]] Agent Sub District of Raleigh [[/strikethrough]] Surgeon in Chief dist. N.C.
Raleigh, N.C., November 25, 1868.
Capt. A. Rutherford
Asst. Sub-Asst Com'r.
Wilmington N.C.

Capt.
I have the honor to inform you that the patients, now inmates f the "Freedman's Hosp." Salisbury, will be sent to Wilmington on the 27 inst. by the order of the Asst. Com'r. They will be in charge of the "Hosp Steward" who will report to you and who will bear a letter from this office to the chairman of the County Com'rs of New Hanover Co. There are five (5) patients for that Co. only four (4) of which can be sent at this time. Presuming that you will receive a communication from the Asst. Com'r upon this same subject I will only add that, your efforts to see that these helpless persons