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 Circular No. 17. War Dep't., Surgeon General's Office. 1 p. Richmond [s. n.] 1864 Call number 1004.05conf (Rare Book Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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 Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, 1998 English Latin Medical personnel -- Salaries, etc. -- Confederate States of America. Military hospitals -- Confederate States of America -- Employees -- Salaries, etc. Military hospitals -- Confederate States of America. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals. Wages -- Confederate States of America. 2001-03-15, Celine Noel and Wanda Gunther revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic edition. 2001-01-25, Joshua G. McKim finished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing. 2000-11-17, Andrew Smith finished TEI/SGML encoding 2000-11-3, Zeng Hong finished scanning (OCR) and proofing. CIRCULAR NO. 17. WAR DEP'T., SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE. RICHMOND, August 30th, 1864, To Medical Directors of Hospitals:

Under the authority conveyed in Section 6, General Orders No. 66, A.& I. G. O., current series, extra pay will be allowed certain men in General Hospitals, as follows:

Hospital Stewards,. . . . . $1.00 per diem. Ward Masters (detailed). . . . . 50 cts. per diem.

This allowance to detailed Ward Masters is inclusive of the 25 cents per diem, extra duty pay, allowed under previous regulations.

SURG. S. H. STOUT, Med. Dir. Macon, Ga. S. P. MOORE, Surgeon General C. S. A. [OFFICIAL.] S. H. STOUT, <hi rend="italics">Medical Director.</hi>