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Austin Groves Cemetery, 67-2 Summary Report, page 36

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 UNION AUTHORrriEa *fdue to Doctor W. Clendenin su" *nnia^ ofthk 5‘L >?Sbis hospital, and the interest he haa showj in^xXertion"? to pml "? of their race. Until Doctor Clendenin came h?'r ''vlfare and ^in the hospitals had never received aS i?*roMthe CO,OIS fienl. Ue ^medied WORK OF OFFICE. • find bv reference to my books that up to the 1"? t .L Jnseirt from this office 1,062 official letters and 1 imi^re hav"? [See references of applications to the examining bS^ "?*0^ mustering. fte mustering of these troops and officers has been done chieflv bv gjBtenant Ernest, Thirteenth U. S Colored Infantry, under my spervision He has not had clerical force enough to keep his records id returns up with t he work done. ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 1 desire to put upon record niy appreciation of the courtesy and ■tetAnee extended to nu* by the general commanding the Military Division of the Mississippi and the departments thereof and their -pectivc staffs. I also desire to make sjiecial recognition of the valuable assistance riren to this organization by Brigadier-General Webster, chief of staff nGeneral Sherman: Lieiivmant-Colonel Bowers, assistant adjutant-faeral on the staff of (then Major, now Lieutenant) General Grant, nanding the Military Division of the Mississippi; Capt. a "? Dickson, assistant adjut ant-general on the staff of t ‘of fcwcrans and Thomas, successively commanding the cp- > "? Cumberland; Lieutenant-Colonel (now Brevet brigs' • cl)i * ■ WAR OF THE REBELLION, OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES, pit ^ed by The National Histoncal Sodety, Gettysburg, PA, 1892, Series m, Vol. IV, Serial No. 125, page 773 36 - (2554)    

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