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Confederate (CSV)

Assistant Surgeon

Charles Thomas Taliaferro

(1833 - 1902)

Home State: Alabama

Education: Atlanta Medical College, Class of 1859

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He graduated from the Atlanta Medical College in 1859, studied at Jefferson Medical College (Philadelphia) and the Medical College of Virginia (Richmond), before opening his own practice in Sparta, AL in 1860. He enlisted as Private on 25 April 1861 in Company E, 4th Alabama Infantry. Brevetted 2nd Lieutenant 9 April 1862, Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 22 August. Resigned to accept commission as Assistant Surgeon to date from 12 August 1862.

On the Campaign

Present in action on South Mountain and at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

Possibly promoted to Surgeon in 1864.

After the War

He moved his practice to Evergreen and was also in the drug business there, to about 1867. He then farmed outside of town. In 1885, while still maintaining his farm, he returned to the drug business in Evergreen. He was mayor of Evergreen in 1889 and probate judge of Conecuh County in 1892.

References & notes

Basic information from State of Alabama1. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Details from a bio sketch in the Memorial Record of Alabama (1893), Vol, 1.

Birth

03/15/1833; Caroline County, VA

Death

06/19/1902; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Evergreen, AL

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: various [AotW citation 15577]

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