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HISTOEY OF DENTAL SURGERY 139

or not dental surgeons were needed in the branches of the service to which
they belonged. Tlie officers to whom these letters were addressed were Generals
U. S. Grant, William T. Sherman, Phillip H. Sheridan, W. S. Hancock and

JOHN S. MARSHALL, M. D.

Admiral David G. Porter. Without exception the military officers agreed that
there had been great need of tlie services of dental surgeons in the Union
army during tlie Civil war, and that there was equal need of such services
among the troops at the frontier posts and stations. It was not an uncommon