Edmond Gross Scruggs

In 1860 he was a 29 year old physician at Gibson in Glascock County, GA. He enrolled there as First Lieutenant of Company A, 48th Georgia Infantry on 4 March 1862 and was elected Captain on 31 August 1862.

He was slightly wounded in the head in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 27 September and again in November 1862. He was elected to the state legislature in October 1863, was absent on leave from October through December 1863, and resigned his commission on 7 January 1864.

In 1870 he was again a doctor in Glascock County and lived with Terrell Kitchens' family there. In 1880, still practicing and also a farmer, he had his own household at Scruggsville there.

On 24 August 1883 he was charged "justifiable homicide" after killing his brother-in-law and next door neighbor Adrian Underwood [NY Times] on 21 July. His 3 day trial in Gibson, Glasscock County, ended in a not-guilty verdict on 27 August 1883 [Savannah Morning News]. He was defended by Colonels William Gibson and James Whitehead, also formerly of the 48th Georgia.

By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a physician and druggist at Warrenton in Warren County, GA.

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also on a casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, and the AMA's Deceased Physician File. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Amanda M Hunter (1856-1915) and they had 5 children between 1873 and 1882.

06/22/1831; Warren County, GA

08/15/1915; Warrenton, GA; burial in Sallie Hill Cemetery, Warrenton, GA