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That so much suffering and want is yet unrelieved
is our regret but not our reproach.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
Your most ob'dt serv't
D. O. McCord
Surg. 63rd U.S.C.I. (late) Surg. in Chf
Freedmen's Bureau, State of Miss.

Transcription Notes:
ob'dt serv't = obedient servant D.O. McCord = "in December 1863, the War Department appointed D. O. McCord as medical director of freedmen for the Department of Tennessee and Arkansas", later in Miss.