This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/755.1 Message Board Post: Unless they were volunteers, medical officers were appointed by regimental commanders and commissioned by the Medical Department in Richmond. Afterwards the authorities in Richmond controlled assignments. Most of their records should appear with general and staff officer microfilm, although many references are filed with the regiments. There were a limited number of Alabama regiments which saw action at Shiloh, and I don't see any surgeon or assistant surgeon that died there. However, I'm assuming this man was a commissioned medical officer. Perhaps he was assigned to a regiment from another state. In any case, his name should appear in the CSA index. Do you know his exact name? How do you know this story? What other eividence do you have?