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in the Federal prisons was in like round numbers but 220,000; that of the former there were 22,570 deaths, and of the latter 26, 436 deaths; a difference in favor of the Confederates of 3,866, notwithstanding the 50,000 excess in our hands. Thus the percentage of deaths in Confederate prisons was about 8 3-10, while that in the Federal prisons was 12, a difference of about 3 7-10 per cent, in favor of the Confederates.

Such, in brief, was the work to which Dr. Moore gave anxious thought and ceaseless labor, and developed and conducted under the most embarrassing and discouraging circumstances to marvelous dis- cipline, efficiency, and resourcefulness.

ASSOCIATION FORMED.

Under the auspices of the surgeon-general, in August, 1863, a large number of surgeons assembled in the Medical College of Vir- ginia, at Richmond, and organized the "Association of Army and Navy Surgeons of the Confederate States," by the adoption of a constitution and the election of the following officers:

Samuel P. Moore, M. D., president; J. B. McCaw, M. D., first vice-president; D. Conrad, M. D., Confederate States navy, second vice-president; W. A. Davis, M. D., first recording secretary; W. A. Thorn, M. D., second recording secretary; M. Michel, M. D., first corresponding secretary; S. Jenkins, M. D., second correspond- ing secretary, and J. S. Wilson, M. D., treasurer.

It was also through his aid and encouragement that the most ex- cellent " Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal" came into existence, and was conducted to the end of the war; and .he directed the preparation of a collection of papers entitled "A Manual of Military Surgery," intended more especially for officers in the field, and to treat of but few of the diseases incident to the camp and hospital, reserving only such as are more intimately connected with gunshot wounds and operations, as Shock, Tetanus, Hospital Gangrene, Pyaemia, etc. It is accompanied by a careful selection of lithographs of amputations, ligations, resections, etc.

He continued to reside in Richmond after the war, not actively engaged in the practice of his profession, but giving the benefit of his extensive knowledge and experience to educational and other institutions, having the welfare of the community in view.

He was a member of the R. E. Lee Camp of Confederate Veter- ans, of Richmond; of the Executive Board of the Virginia Agricul-