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Taylor farm
NorfolK Co. Va.
Sept 19/67

I have the honor to certify in behalf of A.A. Surg Dr. Lessing USA, who had charge of Hosp. for Freedman at this place during Summer 1866, and who is willfully & wrongly accused by an individual named Sterling, of publicly exposing a female patient who had a bad disorder that such statement is doing injustice to Dr Lessing, who never to my knowledge committed such act

Henry Black his x mark 
Formerly nurse at Hospital
Witnessed Charles E. Allen

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-11-09 12:14:02 fixed some errors. It really looks like "Formerly Nurse at Hospital" but were men EVER nurses back then? It sure looks like "Formerly Nurse at Hospital" but agree seems at the time unlikely (kept it as transcribed) - looks good. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-11-09 14:36:50