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lost by the Brigade Quartermaster were the valuable books on French and English Military Surgery – which I brought on for the benefit of the boys costing me about sixty dollars.

I now understand what an old surgeon told me in New York "Take care of your money and your courage, for you will never get credit for either.”

Respectfully yours

Aug. C. Hamlin

P. S.

If any man can product aught against me or prove that any surgeon preceded me in any of the skirmishes or in the first fight of Bull Run or followed more closely his Reg. or approached nearer to the enemies batteries in the last battle of Mannasas [Manassas], then you are welcome to my salary for benevolent purposes

A. C. H.

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Dr. Hamlin Ft. Corcoran Aug. 2