The Provost-Marshal-General's Office managed recruiting for the Union forces during the last two years of the Civil War (1863-1865), standardizing the medical exams and making other improvements to ensure better fitness in new troops. This process generated over a million detailed medical records, which after the war were compiled and analyzed to provide a valuable statistical profile of the physical and medical condition of American men. This section of the published report described the medical examination procedure to be followed by the army surgeons. Pages LVI-LIX of J. H. Baxter, Comp., Statistics, medical and anthropological, of the Provost-Marshal-General's Bureau, derived from records of the examination for military service in the armies of the United States during the late war of the rebellion. Vol 1.
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