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If it be estimated that for each of these officers, one surgeon and two
assistant-surgeons were appointed, and served in field and hospital, then the
Confederate Medical Corps was composed of about the following:
| Surgeons | 1,927 |
| Assistant-Surgeons | 3,854 |
| —— | 5,781 |
This estimate places the number of surgeons and assistantsur-geons at too high a figure, as may be shown by the following considerations:
a. Many regiments and battalions had not more than two
medical officers.
b. The casulties of war were much more numerous, and promotion was much more rapid, amongst the line officers than in the
Medical Staff.
A more accurate estimate of the actual number of medical officers actively engaged in the Confederate army during the war 1861-‘65, may be based upon the number of regiments, battalions and legions of infantry, cavalry and artillery, furnished by the individual States, during the civil war:
| Total number of regiments—infantry | 536 |
| Total number of regiments—cavalry | 124 |
| Total number of regiments—artillery | 13 |
| —— |
| Total | 673 |
These regiments were furnished by the individual States, as follows:
