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left one case of smallpox at Austin.

         As long as Recruits are sent from Depots were smallpox prevails, with the proper methods of isolation from all exposure, so long will there be danger of a recurrence of the same results, as attended the one under discussion.
         Your attention is respectfully and specially called to the report of Dr. Snively, referred to by Surgeon Hammond in his Endorsement, that some of the Recruits left Newport Barracks with the clothes, they wore in hospital there, when sick with smallpox.
         The other twelve desertions for March are not so excessive as to require remark.  It is observed that the desertions from this Regiment for February was but one, and for April three.
                                                                         Very respectfully
                                                                         Your obdt. servant
                                                                (Sgd.)  C. C. Augur

3 Enclosures. Brigadier General, U.S.A. 2261. D. T. '73. Commanding _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 526.