Annotation
[1] ALS, PHi. This communication is written on the back of a letter from William M. Cooper, president of Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, Philadelphia, July 22, 1863. Cooper set forth that he had written Surgeon General Hammond on the 17th of July, ``stating to him a large number of wounded soldiers had past through our city to N. York and I had taken the responsibility of having a number taking to our hospital, and cared for in a proper manner. . . . With others I thought I was doing an act of kindness. . . .'' Cooper included a transcript of the reply from the Surgeon General's Office which denounced Cooper's ``outrage committed upon U.S. Soldiers'' and promised that ``the Surgeon Genl. will take steps to prevent the sick and wounded soldiers being again put in position where their sense of discipline and duty . . . must be destroyed. . . .''