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W.W. Holmes
(1836 - 1863)
Home State: Ohio
Command Billet: Medical Director
Branch of Service: Medical
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 26 year old physician living with the Tucker family and others in a house in Hillsborough, Highland County, OH; probably a partner of Dr. Isaac W Tucker. He was commissioned Surgeon of the 12th Ohio Infantry on 22 April 1861, but discharged to accept appointment as Surgeon, US Volunteers on 4 April 1862. He was assigned to the staff of Brigadier General Cox.
On the Campaign
He was Medical Director of the Kanawha Division, Ninth Army Corps on the Maryland Campaign.
The rest of the War
He continued in General Cox's staff as Medical Director when that officer was assigned command of the District of Western Virginia in October 1862. He was discharged on 22 October 1863 and died on 1 December 1863.
References & notes
Service information from the Ohio Adjutant General1 and Heitman.2 His role in Maryland from Duncan.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a portrait photo collection of General Cox and his staff, from the Library of Congress.
Birth
06/11/1836; Highland County, OH
Death
12/01/1863; burial in Hillsboro Cemetery, Hillsboro, OH
1 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 2, pg. 353 [AotW citation 28791]
2 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, pg. 539 [AotW citation 28792]
3 Duncan, Louis C., and Captain, Medical Corps, US Army, The Medical Department of the United States Army in the Civil War: unpublished collection, c. 1916, pg. 45 [AotW citation 28793]