(1837 - 1913)
Home State: Mississippi
Education: U of Virginia, Jefferson Medical College, Class of 1856
Branch of Service: Medical
Before Sharpsburg
A 24 year old physician in Aberdeen, MS, he was commissioned Assistant Surgeon, 17th Mississippi Infantry on on 25 April 1861.
On the Campaign
He treated wounded troops on the field after the battle at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He served in McLaws' Division hospital for two months after Sharpsburg. In December he was promoted to Surgeon (Major) and sent to Mississippi where he ran CS Army General hospitals to the end of the War.
After the War
He had a practice in Aberdeen, was on the Board of Health, and was President of the Medical Association (1884-85). He retired in 1900.
References & notes
Birth
03/17/1837; Sumter County, AL
Death
05/19/1913; Aberdeen, MS; burial in IOOF Cemetery, Aberdeen, MS
1 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, pg. 65 [AotW citation 21414]