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Copy 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