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City Point July 28th 1865

To Col O. Brown
Supt. Bureau R.Y
Dept. Virginia

Sir
In reply to one endorsement of a communication of the 19th inst, which was returned to me yesterday, I feel it my duty to trouble you with a pew lined in vindication of thyself, and the exposed and refutation of certain base falshoods that Dr Slyck has seen fit to embody, in his remarks endorsing that communication.
He commences by pretending to state facts and I have yet to discover the first fact in his catalogue. In the first place, he says, "three mules were left when the Hospital was evacuated." Left where? he might with the same propriety here said three times three - for the Offices of the Hospital never claimed but two, althou quite a number were owned and kept in that immediate vicinity at the time - yet they, the Officers, knew what property belonged to them as Dr. Van Slyck.
Secondly- The 18th of October, 1864, the Hospital did not own a single mule; Dr. Munce, the executive officer, had to go out and impress into the service of the Hospital a mule belonging to a Colonel Mace, to operate his railroad - and neither of their mules which Dr. Van Slyck claims

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