The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-07-13
MEDICAL CORPS TO MEET.
Surgeon General Teballt Issues a Circular.
Directed to Wartime Surgeons
-1Uunta Constitution.

lSbucu circular 10 the Survivors OF
the medical corps Of the army and
navy Of the Confederate States. call,
ing on them to attend the reunion and
to bring with them any data they may
have. The circular is an interesting
paper and contains many important
facts concerning the sickness from
diseases and wounds in both armies.
1t is as follows
Office of the Surgeon General
United Confederate Veterans. G23
North Lafayette Square, New Or
leans, La, June 30, ls9S-To the
Survivors of the Medical Corps of the
Army and Navy Of the Confederate
Statcs-Comradcs: The eighth an
nual reunion of the United Confcdcr-
ate Veterans will take place on the
zH;n, :c;,, 2lst; 22d and 23d Of July, 1898,
at Atlanta, Ca that historic, patri
otic Southern city which was subject
cd to the torch after being captured
by the Federal army under General
Sherman, her helpless women and
children and non combatants made
homeless and shcltcrlcss refugees in
land Scared and dcsolated by more
than 1000 hard fought, bloody bat
tleields, and whose territory, almost
to foot, had felt the thundcrbolts Of
most cruel and destructive war.
The great majority not only Of the
patient and valiant humane surgeons
constituting the peerless medical
corps, but the great majority likewise
OF the pure and valiant men compris-
ing all the other great departments Of
the Confederate government and its
matchless army and navy have pre-
ceded US across the river Of time and
are now resting under tho shade Of
the trees, awaiting our coming on the
eternal plains il the vast irpenetra-
bic beyond.
AS survivors Of that Christian
hearted, distinguished corps Of Con-
federate surgeons, who knew no enemy
in their professional work, is there
not high and pressing important
duty remaining to be done, and due,
not less to ourselves than to our de-
parted and immortal comrades of the
same service-a responsible duty to
collect and systematize foY reference
the correct professional facts relating
to our work in field and hospital and
military prison in connection with
the unequalod. worldwide involving
Southern constitutional cause, that
the coming historian may with readi-
ness and with truthfulness record
them for future generations to read
and appreciate?
LET me here briefly and tersely re-
cite few historic facts from official
data in my possession of interest 20
stimulate our further research: Of
the :hirty-four States and Territories
only eleven seeded. In these eleven
States the men of military age-from
eighteen to forty-five years-number-
cd 1,O64, 1913, inclusive of lame, halt
and blind, etc. On the union
side the same class numbered
1859, ,872, over four to one, with
out estimating the constant accessions
from the world at large, augmenting
monthly the Union side.
"Thc United States in enlisted men
numbered 1855, ,O28, against not ex-
ceeding 100000 on the side of the
Southern Confederacy.
"With the State of kentucky. Mis-
souri,, Maryland, West Virginia, Ten
nessee and the remainder of the South.
ern States, the remarkable fact pre-
sents that the South-the slave States
gave exceeding 100000 men to the
Union side, more than half SIS many
soldiers as comprised the entire Con-
fedcrate army. These above facts,
derived from the war records, show
that there we're four armies in the
field, each one Of which was as large
as the entire Confederate army, with
out including the more than 300, 900
contingent from the South.
I'm numbers the Federal loss was
67,o58 killed and 43,Ol2 died of
wounds; total, 1l0,O72. Of Confed-
crates the like total was 74.524. The
Confederates' had 53,773 killed out
right and o194, ,O26 wounded on the
field Of battle. More than one-third
of the 100000 Confederaies were
therefore confided to the Confederate
surgeons for battle wounds. For the
nineteen months, January, 1862, to
July, 1863, inclusive, over 1000, 900
of IL II.