Mansion House, Buffalo,
May 8, 1863
I have worked every day, Sunday included, for more than two
months, and from fourteen to sixteen hours a day. I have filled the West with
my agents. I have compelled the railroads to accept lower terms of
transportation than the Government rates. I have filled a letter-book of five
hundred pages, most of it closely written.
[Endorsement:]
This letter is respy. referred to Surgeon Genl. Dole with
the request that he would confer with Surgeon Stone and Lt. Col. Hallowell. It
is surprising, and not fair nor fit, that a man trying, as Mr. Stearns is, to
serve the country at a risk should suffer thus by such disagreement of opinion.
John A. Andrew.
SOURCE: Preston Stearns, The Life and Public
Services of George Luther Stearns, p. 292-3
