Civil war surgeons gravestones

I have been researching Confederate Surgeons for over 3 years now. I find that a lot of them don't have gravestones. Did doctors not have gravestones for a reason I don't know. I find it interesting though that the town doctors after the war don't have gravestones.
Don't know that this is particularly the kind of reply you're looking for,but here's one at Magnolia Cemetery in Baton Rouge:

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I have been researching Confederate Surgeons for over 3 years now. I find that a lot of them don't have gravestones. Did doctors not have gravestones for a reason I don't know. I find it interesting though that the town doctors after the war don't have gravestones.
Are you asking specifically about US Veterans official grave markers? Like the one @bdtex posted above? Or just a tombstone in general? I think some of the CS physicians families might have found themselves better off financially after the war and able to provide their own grave markers and so did not necessarily apply for VA furnished markers? That might explain the absence of VA markers on some CS surgeons' graves?

Here's a Find-A-Grave "virtual cemetery" with 46 entries, some of which have tombstones:
https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/319073?page=1#sr-85804416

These two are not included, but a couple others I can think of
Dr. Erwin James Eldridge (16th GA, Cobb's Brigade) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10905414/erwin-j_-eldridge
Dr. William Cordwell Cross (16th AL, Wood's Brigade, AoT Hospitals) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98280671/william-cordwell-cross
 
Are you asking specifically about US Veterans official grave markers? Like the one @bdtex posted above? Or just a tombstone in general? I think some of the CS physicians families might have found themselves better off financially after the war and able to provide their own grave markers and so did not necessarily apply for VA furnished markers? That might explain the absence of VA markers on some CS surgeons' graves?

Here's a Find-A-Grave "virtual cemetery" with 46 entries, some of which have tombstones:
https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/319073?page=1#sr-85804416

These two are not included, but a couple others I can think of
Dr. Erwin James Eldridge (16th GA, Cobb's Brigade) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10905414/erwin-j_-eldridge
Dr. William Cordwell Cross (16th AL, Wood's Brigade, AoT Hospitals) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98280671/william-cordwell-cross

I have found in general tombstones some surgeons lack even a tombstone.
 
Are you specifically referring to Hollywood? I'm only asking because The Gettysburg Dead, men who died at Gettysburg not brought home until 1870 or so frequently had no ID. Between O'Neil's records from the battlefield burials, Weaver's notes and regimental records from 1863 it sounds like some men did but not many. Hollywood's burials were in one large grave, weren't they? Perhaps all that was known was ' surgeon ', not which one?
 
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