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labored considerable with the Freedmen and attended about four hundred persons as you may see by my weekly and monthly reports in your office.

I am also attending several Freedmen in this place there are not so many being close by as in Monroe La but within three or four miles there are a large number. I am often requested to go and prescribe for them but having no horse I cannot do it.

If I can be furnished with a horse and medicins and a reasonable compensation I would be willing  to attend the destitute sick in this vicinity.  I think there will soon be some suffering among them from the large numbers of them who will need medical aid. There is no regular practicing physicians here nearer than seven miles in one direction and twelve miles in another way.

I am attending company of 20th Inf. I think I shall have plenty of time an attend some sick Freedmen. It of course will be somewhat laborious as it is a sticky hot climate and should have to ride some few miles