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Abstract
Four page letter regarding arrest of a Chief Army Surgeon for selling U.S. Army hospital stores to Winchester druggists; authored
by Army Surgeon W.S. Newton to his wife from "Headquarters 2'nd Infantry Division Hospital, Army of West Virginia, Nov. 29,
1864." He writes: "The only thing of interest now is something repugnant to every honorable medical man's mind. It is the
arrest of one of the most prominent of our medical officers, the Surgeon-in-Chief of our division. The Court to try the case
convened today. J.M. Robinson [who] has messed and slept with me since Sept. is the man. While at Winchester, after the battle
19 September he was in charge of all hospitals of our corps, seven in all, and while there it seems, he sold the drugs and
Hospital Stores drawn from the Medical purveyor to druggists of Winchester and committed other irregularities contrary to
the good of the Service." etc.
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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], W.S. Newton, Army Surgeon, Civil War Letter, A&M 3482, West Virginia
and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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