. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . SURGEONS OF THE SECOND DIVISION, NUNTH CORPS, OCTOBER, 1804 MONOTONOUS HEROISMTHE ARMY DOCTOR IN THE REAR The men in these photographs can representonly faintly the extent of the gigantic medicalorganization of which they were merely asmall part. Many of the surgeons never gotto the front, but served their country faith-fully at the rear, watching the slow progress oftyphoid and malaria cases. There was muchtyphoid at City Point on account of the diffi-culty of obtain
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . SURGEONS OF THE SECOND DIVISION, NUNTH CORPS, OCTOBER, 1804 MONOTONOUS HEROISMTHE ARMY DOCTOR IN THE REAR The men in these photographs can representonly faintly the extent of the gigantic medicalorganization of which they were merely asmall part. Many of the surgeons never gotto the front, but served their country faith-fully at the rear, watching the slow progress oftyphoid and malaria cases. There was muchtyphoid at City Point on account of the diffi-culty of obtaining pure water. Nothing exceptthe barest necessities could be brought to thefront where large armies were finally came to realize that the nature anddegree of sanitary relief must partake of acompromise except in the well-equipped hos-pitals in the rear. Besides medical, surgical,. AN ARMY SURGEON AT CITY POINT DR. J. M. GILL and sanitary work, the army surgeon had an-other important duty of a generally profes-sional nature. Every man who applied forenlistment as a soldier was given a medical ex-amination. During the Civil War a total of£,So9,132 enlistments were credited to theseveral States and Territories: this numberincluded men who enlisted twice or even agreater number of times. To give the numberof individuals who served during the war is notpracticable: nor is it important in this con-nection, since a physical examination was madeby the surgeons for each reenlistment as wellas enlistment. Besides the above total, some07,000 men enlisted in the regular army, ofwhom probably one-third was not credited toany State. All this meant additional work.
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