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Rh whole will fill in the needed missing links required to perfect the historic part relating to the faithfulness and unfaultering devotion of the Confederate surgeons in the thorough and conscientious performance of their humanitarian professional obligations, regardless of creeds and of nationalities, or whether friends or foemen. The whole number of Confederates surrendered from the 9th of April, 1865, to the 26th day of May, 1865, the date of final surrender, under Gen. E. Kirby Smith, was, according to the muster rolls, a little under 175,000. This embraces quite a number who from disease and wounds were not actually in the field at the time. The whole number of Federal forces then in the field and afterward mustered out of service, as the records show, amounted to in round numbers, 1,000,000.

The total loss in killed and died of wounds in the Franco-German war was 3.1 per cent; that of the Austrians in the war of 1866, 2.6 per cent; that of the Allies in the Crimea, 3.2 per cent. But in our war the hemorrhage was far greater, for the Federals lost 4.7 per cent and the Confederates over 9 per cent., the heaviest loss of any modern army, that fell around its standard.