[COMMUNICATED.]
Messrs. Editors:
— The following is a list of Medical Officers on duty with the
“Army of Occupation” in Texas.
Surgeons.
— P. H. Craig, Medical Director; H. S. Hawkins, Artillery Regiment; R.
C. Wood, 5th Regiment of Infantry; N. S. Jarvis, General
Hospital; J. J. B. Wright, 8th Regiment of Infantry.
Assistant Surgeons.
— J. B. Porter, 3d Regiment Infantry; J. B. Wells, Battalion of Field
Artillery; M. Miles, 4th Regiment of Infantry; L. C. McPhail,
2d Regiment of Dragoons; B. M. Byrne, Depot at St. Josephs; J. R.
Conrad, Gen. Hospital; D. C. DeLeon, Artillery Regiment; J. W. Russell,
5th Regiment of Infantry; J. G. Glen, San Antonio; H. E.
Cruttenden, 7th Regiment of Infantry; James Simons, Medical
Purveyer; A. W. Kennedy, 3d Regiment of Infantry; W. Levely, Almos.
Total, 18 Medical Officers in attendance
upon 4000 troops. The Medical Corps is composed of 20 Surgeons, and 50
Assistant Surgeons, the strength of the army being about 85000. From
these facts, and those upon which the Picayune of the 7th
inst. based its compliments paid to the Medical Staff serving at Corpus
Christi, one would readily judge the Surgeon General of the army had
ordered the elite of his corps on duty with the troops in Texas.
“Amara.”
Corpus Christi, Texas, January 21st,
1846.
Source: The Daily Picayune,
February 6, 1846, p. 2, col. 5.
