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Surgeon-General's Office.
Sir—You are instructed to assign the medical officers now on duty with the sick prisoners at Andersonville, Georgia, to the points that have been selected for the accommodation of the prisoners. All the sick whose lives will not be endangered by transportation will be removed. The medical officers selected will be required to accompany the sick. You will visit each station and see that such arrangements are made for the sick as their wants may require, and use all the means for their comfort that the Government can furnish.
Your obedient servant,
S. P. Moore, Surgeon-General, C. S. A.
To I. H. White, C. S. M. Prison Hospital, Andersonville, Ga.
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Office of Surgeon in charge C. S. M. Hospital,
Colonel—Under orders from Brigadier-General J. H. Winder, I respectfully request that W. H. H. Phelps, of your post, be detailed and ordered to report to me for assignment to duty as purchasing agent of vegetables and anti-scorbutics for the sick and wounded prisoners now under my charge at this place.
R. R. Stevenson, Surgeon in Charge.
To Colonel Leon Von Zinken, Commanding Post, Columbus, Ga.
Endorsements.
Approved:
S. M. Bemiss, Acting Medical Director.
Approved:
Leon Von Zinken, Colonel Commanding Post.
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Camp Lawton, Ga., November 9, 1864.
Sir― * * * We have been quite busy for the last two days in selecting the sick to be exchanged. After getting them all ready at the depot, we were notified by telegraph not to send them, and had to take them back to the stockade. Many of these poor fellows, already broken down in health, will succumb through despair. *********
Your obedient servant,
I. H. White, Chief Surgeon.
To Surgeon R. R. Stevenson, in charge Post, Andersonville, Ga.
