[788] Virginia, and was on duty with this command in the Suffolk and Blackwater campaign, about Petersburg and Richmond, in 1863; at Chickamauga and during the investment of Chattanooga, and through the campaign in east Tennessee, when the skill and endurance of the medical officers were severely taxed. While in Tennessee he was attached to the staff of Maj.-Gen. S. B. Buckner, commanding Hood's old division, and later was appointed chief surgeon of this division, subsequently commanded by General Fields. On the return to Virginia he shared the fortunes of the First corps in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, North and South Anna rivers, Cold Harbor, and in the fighting before Richmond and Petersburg, and finally the retreat to Appomattox. Then he returned to Charleston, resumed his practice in the city and renewed his connection with the medical college of the State of South Carolina, of which he was elected demonstrator in 1866, professor of anatomy in 1870, afterward clinical lecturer on diseases of the eye and ear, and since 1891 has been dean of the faculty. He is a member and ex-president of the State and local medical societies, is physician of the Confederate widows' home, surgeon of the State military academy, surgeon of the Washington light infantry, and one of the attending surgeons of the city hospital. He was one of the editors of the Charleston Medical Journal, and has contributed many valuable papers in medicine, general surgery, and more especially on diseases of the eye and ear, in current medical journals.
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[788] Virginia, and was on duty with this command in the Suffolk and Blackwater campaign, about Petersburg and Richmond, in 1863; at Chickamauga and during the investment of Chattanooga, and through the campaign in east Tennessee, when the skill and endurance of the medical officers were severely taxed. While in Tennessee he was attached to the staff of Maj.-Gen. S. B. Buckner, commanding Hood's old division, and later was appointed chief surgeon of this division, subsequently commanded by General Fields. On the return to Virginia he shared the fortunes of the First corps in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, North and South Anna rivers, Cold Harbor, and in the fighting before Richmond and Petersburg, and finally the retreat to Appomattox. Then he returned to Charleston, resumed his practice in the city and renewed his connection with the medical college of the State of South Carolina, of which he was elected demonstrator in 1866, professor of anatomy in 1870, afterward clinical lecturer on diseases of the eye and ear, and since 1891 has been dean of the faculty. He is a member and ex-president of the State and local medical societies, is physician of the Confederate widows' home, surgeon of the State military academy, surgeon of the Washington light infantry, and one of the attending surgeons of the city hospital. He was one of the editors of the Charleston Medical Journal, and has contributed many valuable papers in medicine, general surgery, and more especially on diseases of the eye and ear, in current medical journals.
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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