Charles Sumner: “Augusta, who had served as a surgeon in the Army of the United States and was brevetted as a Lieutenant-Colonel, who had…”

“Augusta, who had served as a surgeon in the Army of the United States and was brevetted as a Lieutenant-Colonel, who had enjoyed office and honor under the National Government, has been excluded from the Medical Society of the District of Columbia on that old reason so often and persistently urged, merely of color.”