WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, April 11, 1862

Grave complaints against Assistant Surgeons Hewitt and Stipp having reached the Department, they are suspended from duty, and ordered to report themselves. A negligent or inhuman surgeon is regarded by this department as an enemy of his country and his race, and will be dealt with according to the utmost rigor of military law.

E. M. STANTON, Sec’y of War

– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862 & also in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 16, 1862, p. 2 under the article heading "Official Bulletins by the Secretary of War."