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of cruelty or malpractice from any quarter at the time. The boy was left in charge of a colored woman who they had pressed into service. She agreed to care for him rather than go into the Army. Many negroes were afraid Capt. E. Gammon would press them away & had intimations of the sort whether with or without foundation I cannot tell - but as to cruelty in the Physicians I never heard the shadow of suspicion cast upon them by either Union or Secesh. citizens 

All accounts of the time agreed that both feet were mortified & vitality hopelessly destroyed.

I wish to be understood not as speaking [[strikethrough]] from [[/strikethrough]] as an eye witness, but from daily intercourse with citizens of all parties; I had no special acquaintance with any of the parties in the hospital & no motive aside from common justice to speak in their favor.

All which is respectfully submitted
Saml. B. Cunningham M.D.