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Freedmen's Bureau State of Miss
Office Surgeon in Chief
Vicksburg, Miss. Sept 30th 1865.
Lieut. Stuart Eldridge
A.A.A. General
Sir:
I have the honor to report that in compliance with orders from your office, I took charge of the medical affairs of Refugees and Freedmen the State of Miss. as Surgeon in Chief of Freedmen Bureau, on the 21st day of July, 1865. 
Having been previously, Medical Director and Inspector of Freedmen for the Departments of Tenn. and Ark. I had only to continue the work as it was already organized and being prosecuted in that portion of this State lying near the river and to extend the same system of hospital and Camps to the dependent sick in the interim. I immediately inspected the hospitals at Vicksburg, Davis Bend and Washington, which were the only hospitals then established in the State. They were all in pressing need of medicines and the attendants had received no