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You will excuse the liberty a stranger takes in thus addressing you, and attribute the liberty taken to the cause which induced him to with. Allow me to refer you to my brother Gen'l John H Wheeler of your city, or my younger brother Junius Wheeler of the topographical corps Since the war I have practiced medicine among the poor negros, have found many person of deep and unaffected piety, of whom the world is not worthy. Have expended several hundreds dollars among them for which they utterly unable to compensate me only in the gratitude manifested in their daily conduct. Yet I cannot refuse to aid them, some of them formerly my slaves to whom I feel bound by ties of kindly associations of childhood and youth. I am much indebted to Surg Ian Barnes for a supply of medicine without which the negros must have suffered. I am now nearly out: Could the Bureau aid me in small supply? I have distributed a number of testaments among them to which are prefixed the alphabet and lessons

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