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Camp Grant Richmond Va Jan. 4. 1867

Lieut Yeakley

Dear Sir:

I have just recd your communication of the 2d inst and hasten to reply. I was assigned to duty at Camp Fairground Petersburg, Nov. 1st 1866. I had not been there but a week when I began to hear reports detrimental to the Surgical Dept of the Freedmens Bureau at Oak Grove Hospital. I think it best that I should commit to writing only that which I personally can vouch for. I visited the Hospital at O.G. Several times and went through the wards. The patients were not in my opinion properly treated nor cared for. In some instances there appeared to be no treatment at all. I did not wish to be officious but hinted to Dr. Warner that the condition of some of the patients might be ameliorated by adopting a certain course of treatment. He received my suggestion very kindly and promised to adopt them, but at the same time remarked "Dr. Stratton has the management here. I do very little! Yu know Doctor how I am situated." I did not ask him to explain for obvious reasons. On subsequent visits I found no improvement in the condition of the patients. Dr Warner told me that they had not the proper medicines, and that he sold some downtown to get what was