Records, Becollections and Beminiscences.

SPECIAL NOTICE.

The Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy will hold its Ninth Annual Meeting in the Tulane Medical Building, Corner of Canal and Villere Sts., New Orleans, La., Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, April 25th, 26th, and 27th, prox. The first session will be called to order at 10 A. M., Wednesday, April 25th, 1906.

C. H. TODD, M. D., President.

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT,

OWENSBORO, KY., March 1, 1906.

MY DEAR DOCTOR: The Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans will be held in the city of New Orleans, La., April 25, 26, and 27, 1906, and the Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy will hold its meetings at the same time in the Tulane Medical Building, Canal St., and will be called to order at 10 A. M., April 25, prox.

Your attention is called to the following extract from our Constitution and By-laws: "The object of said organization is to cultivate a friendly feeling among the members of the profession who served in the Medical Department of the Confederacy, also to collect through its members all material matter pertaining to the medical service of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy."

"All members of the medical profession who served as Surgeon, Assistant Surgeon, Contract Physician or Acting Assistant Surgeon, Hospital Steward, or Chaplain, during the late war between the States, shall be eligible to membership as members, and the Secretary shall be instructed to enroll their names as such

when application in writing is furnished, together with a statement of the official position and rank held in the Army or Navy by the applicant."

"All Confederate Veterans who are Regular Doctors of Medicine are eligible to membership as Associate Members; and all Sons of Confederate Veterans who are Regular Doctors of Medicine shall be eligible to membership as Junior Members."

A membership fee of one dollar will be required of all members, also associate members, or junior members when admitted, and at subsequent meetings they will only be required to pay the same amount of one dollar when present.

The railroads will furnish transportation for the low rate of one cent per mile each way, and the hotels and boarding houses. will charge a moderate amount to all who attend.

The famed Crescent City, the great metropolis of the South, is an ideal place for our Confederate Reunion, for where else in our beloved Southland do we find the Confederate Soldier more honored, and the memory of our Cause so revered? This beautiful city of the South has prospered since the war, and its people are not only willing, but amply able to right royally entertain every Confederate Veteran who will come.

On the evacuation of Richmond, April 3, 1865, all the Records of the Medical Department were unfortunately destroyed by the burning of the offices of our Surgeon-general, and therefore I earnestly appeal to every living Confederate Medical Officer who possibly can to be present at our meeting, and to come prepared to narrate some of his experiences in the field or hospital, so as to add something to the very meagre records of the most brilliant. medical staff of any army of modern or ancient times; a record of their achievements and successes won under most adverse conditions, shut out from the world for four years without adequate medical supplies or medical literature, and let me urge you to defer no longer this sacred duty, for in a few years there will be none left "to tell the tale."

C. H. TODD, M. D., President.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

Nashville, Tenn., March 1, 1906.

MY DEAR DOCTOR: The Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy will hold its ninth annual meeting at the Tulane Medical Building on Canal St., New Orleans, La., on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, April 25, 26, and 27, proximo. The objects of the Association, in addition to the very agreeable and pleasant social features of again permitting the survivors of the Medical Staff of the Confederate States Army and Navy to meet and mingle together, are for the more important purpose of gathering the important facts of what was done by the members of the medical staff during the years of the great war between the States.

As is well known, but little of the official records of the Medical Department escaped destruction, and it is incumbent on those who yet survive, day by day so rapidly diminishing in numbers, to add to the few known facts of the splendid achievements accomplished by them and their associates and comrades.

The Association is composed of those who served as Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Contract Physicians or Acting Assistant Surgeons, Hospital Stewards, and Chaplains, as "Members;" and also of members of the regular medical profession who are Confederate Veterans, as "Associate Members;" and members of the regular medical profession who are the sons of Confederate Veterans, as "Junior Members." They all have the same rights and privileges on the floor of the Association at its meetings, and only differ in name to indicate the several classes forming our Association. The membership fee is one dollar, and the annual dues paid by all only at subsequent meetings which they attend is one dollar.

The Members had opportunities of making a part of the magnificent history of our Medical Department; the Associate Members had the opportunity of being present at the making of that history, and to them may remain the recollection of some important facts pertaining to that history that has not yet been placed on the printed page; and to the Junior Members will soon

be left, and to them alone, the duty of preserving and perpetuating all the important facts of that history which may be known.

Then, if you are eligible to either Membership, Associate Membership, or Junior Membership, it is sincerely hoped by all who have an interest in these matters, that you will if you possibly can, attend the meetings of the Association, and give your help, aid, and assistance in adding whatever you can to the facts of a history of which every man of Southern feelings may well be proud.

The Members and Associate Members will soon join their comrades on "the other shore," and it will be left to the Junior Members alone to carry on the work of the Association, and that this may be accomplished, it is essential that they meet and mingle together as often as possible.

All who may attend the General Confederate Reunion this. year in New Orleans, and who are eligible to Membership, Associate Membership, or Junior Membership are requested when reaching New Orleans to come at once to the Tulane Medical Building, and they will be assisted in securing comfortable quarters by the members of the Committee of Arrangements. Any members of the Association or any who expect to attend the meetings and who have prepared papers, essays, or reports for the meeting are requested to notify the Secretary of the Association as early as possible, giving the title of their paper, essay, or report.

The city of New Orleans is near the great Trans-Mississippi Department with its many enthusiastic old soldiers, and the most populous divisions of the other departments are not far away. The peculiar character of the city with its innumerable attractions, its old-time streets, its antique historic buildings, the beauty and refinement of its women, the hospitality of its people — ever the most enthusiastic Confederates, the low railroad rates, and other special reasons make this an unusual opportunity for us to get together once more under most favorable circumstances.

Sincerely hoping that you may be present, and that you will aid in making this the most satisfactory meeting that has yet been held, I desire to remain, with best wishes and kind regards,.. Very truly and sincerely yours,

DEERING J. ROBERTS, M. D., Secretary.

Obituary.

DE SAUSSURE FORD, M. D., Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, 1856; the Nestor of the medical profession of Augusta, surgeon on the staff of General Humphrey Marshall and later in charge of the Third Georgia Hospital, Richmond, during the Civil War; professor of anatomy in his alma mater for seventeen years and then professor of surgery; three times dean of the faculty of the college and occupying that position at the time of his death; one of the founders of the Augusta City Hospital and repeatedly chairman of the governing board; president of the State Medical Association and chief surgeon of the Georgia Railroad; identified in a marked degree with many educational, charitable and municipal institutions of Augusta, died at his home in Augusta, February 5, after an illness of ten days, aged 71. At a special meeting of the faculty of the Medical College of Georgia resolutions of respect and regret were unanimously adopted.

DR. JULIAN C. FEILD of Denison, Tex., died on January 31, of Bright's disease. Dr. Feild was born in Pulaski, Tenn., in 1841. After being graduated from the medical department of Tulane University, New Orleans, he served as surgeon in the Confederate Army. When Denison was first laid out as a town Dr. Feild located there and had since then served in many official positions. For thirty years he was local surgeon of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad.

DR. FRANK ANTHONY WALKE died July 12 at his home in Norfolk, Va., aged seventy-three years. He was a graduate of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in the class of 1852, and served in the medical corps of the U. S. Navy. During the Civil War he was active in the naval medical service of the Confederacy.