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Surgeon General's Office
Washington City D.C.
August 3d 1865.

Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 1st Inst. asking information relative to Medical Officers recently assigned to duty from the Department of Virginia in the bureau of Freedmen Refugees etc. & to inform you that each of these officers as belong to the Medical Staff you will drop from your monthly returns

If they are acting Assist Surgeons U.S.A. this Department has nothing more to do with them

Very respectfully etc,
(Signed) C. H Crane
Surgeon USA
Asst Surgeon General

Brt_ Col I.  Simons
Med Dir Dept Va