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I have had many complaints made to me by Freedmen and women that they could not get quinine nor any medicine at the "Bureau" because Dr. Stratton was too busy to attend to them. One woman came to me with a broken breast, in a horrible condition, and said "they would give her nothing at all" I gave her medicine from our Hospital, and subsequently sent her with recipes to Dr. Stratton, which I believe he gave her.

The case of the young man who was shot, you know of.

(see endorsement.)

An Officer told me a fortnight since, "that he had slept that night with a white woman at the "Freedmans Bureau", and that it was a pretty good place for ___.

If I am cited as a witness, I can enter more fully into details. I have written what I can swear to. Dr. Wilbur F. Litch, Union W. Virginia, can, if he choses give you much more valuable testimony, as I know from what he told me himself.

I am confident that a thorough investigation will bring many things to light which you ought to know, but of course those rogues will be on their guard after this.

One thing more, I put Hosp. Steward Arnold under arrest for drunkenness sunday last. The Officer of the day (Lt. Rogers,) found Dr. Stratton, and a Mr. Marshall, Shoe dealer on 

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