- Chas. S. Tripler to Medical Director Army of the Potomac, September 20, 1861

Medical Director’s Office, Washington, September 20, 1861.

Sir: Your duplicate report, which was very properly made, has been received. The brigade commander will no doubt issue the proper orders to correct the evils which you represent. In relation to your complaint that the colonel of the Thirty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers does not recognize your official relations to him, I have to say that those relations depend upon your commission from the President of the United States and not upon the recognition or non-recognition of any individual officer under the President’s command. E :

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

– CHAS. S. TRIPLER,

Medical Director Army of the Potomac.

Brigade Surgeon PRINCE, Graham’s Brigade.

I had thus established a hierarchy, which, though imperfect, enabled

me to keep myself tolerably well informed of the condition of the medi-

– cal department of the army. The irregularities prevailing in relation to

the sending of men to the general hospitals and discharging them therefrom were corrected by paragraphs 4 to 9 of General Orders, No. 9,

Army of Potomac, September 9, 1861. (See Appendix B.) – i