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War Department.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Office of Chief Medical Officer,
Balt. [[strikethrough]] Washington [[/strikethrough]] February 1, 1867.
Dear Major,
Will you please say to the General that I have been detained at home for a couple of days by general indisposition of which I am better, but unfortunately I am now a suffering in a similar manner but not to the same extent, as the Patriarch of old who "took a potsherd to scrape himself withal, I sat down among the ashes." The unwelcome