First Second Third Artil Caval Total

Briga Brigade Briga lery ry

de de Depot

Remaining. Sick 55 50 65 13 81 264

Wounded 7 11 11 9 8 46

Total 62 61 76 22 89 310

Main strength 2,334 2,428 2,550 269 944 8,525

Average on sick 14 23 17 5 10 69 1/2

report daily. In 1/2

hospital

In quarters 40 35 39 8 75 197

1/2 1/2

Total 54 58 57 13 85 267

Percentage on 2.31 2.39 2.23 4.83 9.00 3.13

sick report

daily

Percentage of 6.21 7.78 6.70 12.26 4.66 6.82

taken sick and

wounded

The following table will give the number of cases of the most prevalent diseases:

First Second Thrid Artil Caval Total

Briga Brigade Briga lery ry

de de Depot

Typho-malarial 2 - - - - 2

fever

Remittent fever 6 15 5 - 1 27

Intermittent 18 16 27 - 2 63

fever

Diarrhea, acute 30 36 32 6 4 188

Diarrhea, 12 4 18 2 4 40

chronic

Erysipelas 3 - - 1 - 4

Small-pox and - - 1 - - 1

varioloid

Syphilis and 5 3 1 3 1 13

gonorrhea

Dysentery, acute 3 2 2 - - 7

Dysentery, 1 - 1 3 - 5

chronic

Rheumatism, 6 7 2 - - 15

acute

Rheumatism, 4 6 7 1 4 22

chronic

Bronchitis, 11 21 12 1 1 46

acute

Bronchitis, - - 5 - - 5

chronic

Inflammation of 1 - 1 - 4 6

the lungs

Inflammation of 1 2 3 - - 6

pleura

Boil and whitlow 1 14 9 - - 24

Gunshot wounds 1 6 1 - 6 14

By these tables the remarkably good health of the command will be seen, the daily percentage on sick report being a little above 3. Abdominal diseases were most numerous as usual, next malarial fevers, and next diseases of the respiratory organs.

On February 1 I received orders from the medical director to send off all the sick and wounded who would be unable to accompany the command in case of a move. At 3 p.m. I sent off 181 patients to City Point; a few, however, did not arrive from one of the regiments in time to be sent and were placed in hospital. We remained quiet until February 4, when we received orders to move at 3 a.m. the next morning. I was directed to take fourteen ambulances, but no wagons were allowed owing to the condition of the roads. Surgeon Lovejoy was to take charge of the field hospital with half the attendants of division hospital. He was directed to take such shelter, food, and dressings as could be carried in one of the ambulances. As the hospital was to Cavalry, in charge with forty-seven patients who had been admitted since February 1.

On Monday, February 5, at 3 a.m. the division moved from camp and proceeded by the Jerusalem plank road and Gary's Church to