Attorney at [document torn]
And Notary Public
Lake Crystal, Minn., Dec 29, 1883
Surgeon General U.S.A.
Dear Sir.
Nineteen years ago Dec 15-last-Surgeon AJ Bartlett 33d Mo Vols, now of Virdeu Ill removed the head of the humerus from my left-arm. Hee [sic] writes me that he sent the bone with a minie ball sticking in it to the Army Medical Museum at Washington and it is numbered 6599 surgical section. I have never seen the piece removed and as I had taken a photograph of myself showing the wound taken + sent to the Medical Museum, will you kindly have the bone with the ball in it photographed + sent to me. I will be glad to incur all necessary expense.
I hope you will do this as it will be a valuable war relic to me.
Yours truly,
Lonnie Cray
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