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File Richmond 10. 30. '65 To Col. O. Brown My dear Sir- Allow me to make some statements respecting the suffering now existing in Norfolk and Portsmouth from scanty rations of a poor quality. The persons from whom I gathered them were all previously known to me as uncomplaining and were all either wives and children of soldiers or aged and infirm. None of these receive more than 2 crackers a day and less than a pint of very poor soup made mostly of salt pork. I examined this soup myself and