During the war at least 744 soldiers suffered from a wide variety of physical -- and emotional -- ailments. Some of the more common, at least among the troopers of the Old Third were:

42 known amputations, including 18 legs and 16 arms
8 aphonia or loss of voice
6 asthma
6 bronchitis
63 consumption
5 deafness
14 debility
35 dysentery or chronic diarrhea
5 epilepsy
8 gonorrhea and/or syphillis
389 gunshots
18 heart disease
13 hemorrhoids
5 hepatitis
13 hernias
3 insanity
3 measles
5 nephritis
3 paraplegia/paralysis
5 pneumonia
2 rheumatic fever
39 rheumatism
2 sciatica
5 spinal irritation
2 sunstroke
30 traumas or accidents
8 typhoid fever
7 varicocele
8 varicose veins