William Proby Young

He had practiced medicine in a government insane asylum near Philadelphia and in Washington DC. He was Government Agent and physician on the Castillian, a ship transporting Africans to Liberia following their seizure from slave ships in 1860. He went south at the start of the War, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the 4th Georgia Infantry in Spring 1862.

Colonel Doles wrote that he "remained on the field after he was wounded, caring for the wounded, and fell into the hands of the enemy."

He was promoted to Surgeon in July 1863, and was with the Regiment to Appomattox.

He lived in Washington DC and practiced medicine and was in the insurance business.

Bio and service information, and the photograph above, from Thomas1. His life details from the History of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia (1909), online from Google Books. A reference to the American Colonization Society and the Castillian is online in an exhibit from the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society. Dr. Young kept a diary on that voyage, which is at the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond.

01/19/1834; Portsmouth, VA

1912; burial in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC