72nd Infantry Regiment
An Army Doctor In The Field
C.K. Irwine, Surgeon Of The Seventy Second

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Dr. Irwine is seen seated to the right of the tent pole, while the assistant surgeon faces him on the left.The quarters of a regimental surgeon were generally established on the line of the officers' tents and he was usually open to calls at all hours. If he was a strict disciplinarian, he would only attend what was termed "the doctor's call" on the morning of each day. The words which the men humorously fitted to the notes of this call went: "come and get your quinine, quinine, quinine; come and get your quinine-quini-ni-ine!" The Seventy-second took part in the battle of Gettysburg in July, 1863, an in the pursuit of Lee, and did duty along the line of the Rappahannock till October of that year. Its wounded were many, and the surgeons' duties were exacting during battle and for days thereafter.

Taken from Photographic History of the Civil War Volume VII Prisons and Hospitals, Francis Trevelyan Miller, editor-in-chief. New York: the Trow Press, 1911. Page 265.

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