Section 23
SEC. 23. The medical department shall consist of one surgeon-general, with the rank of colonel; two lieutenant-colonels; seven majors; sixteen captains; eight first lieutenants; five dental surgeons, with the rank of first lieutenant ; one veterinarian, with the rank of second lieutenant; six master hospital sergeants; eighteen hospital sergeants, first class; fourteen sergeants; thirty-two corporals; thirty-eight privates, first class, and one hundred and eighteen privates.