Alumni who served in the Confederacy

Introduction • Alumni A-F • Alumni G-L • • Alumni M-S • Alumni T-Z

Last Name	First Name	Middle Name	Grad Date	Position	Unit
A
Abney	M.	W.	1840	surgeon	22nd S.C.V.
Adams	C.	B.	1860	asst surgeon
B
Baer	Herman		1861	surgeon
Bailey	Thomas	P.	1853	chief surgeon	Georgetown
Bailey	W.	H.	1857	asst surgeon	12th S.C.V.
Barnwell	Thomas	Osborn	1859	surgeon
Barton	D.	W.	1858	asst surgeon	20th S.C.V.
Bellinger	Amos	Northrup	1860	asst surgeon
Boulware	J.	R.	1858	asst surgeon	7th S.C. Regt.
Bozeman	John	J.	1857	asst surgeon	Hampton's Legion
Bratton James Rufus Bratton Class of 1845 J. Rufus Bratton was born in York District, South Carolina, on November 12, 1821. After graduating from the South Carolina College in 1842, he earned his medical degree in 1845 from the Medical College of the State of South Carolina. Dr. Bratton started a practice in Yorkville (York), SC in November 1845. He maintained this practice until 1861, when he volunteered and was made assistant surgeon in the Confederate Medical Department. He saw field service for about a year before serving in hospitals in Richmond (1st Division). He became a full surgeon by examination and was sent to LaGrange, Georgia, where he reorganized the hospital, later going to Madison and eventually to Augusta, where he was taken prisoner. After the Civil War, Dr. Bratton returned home to practice and to farm. While engaged in a duel he shot his opponent, and being threatened with arrest, fled to London, Ontario, from which he was eventually brought back. Escaping action directed against him, he returned to reside in Canada for eight years. He returned to York in 1878 to practice and in 1881 he became a member of the executive committee of the South Carolina State Board of Health, and its chairman in 1888, holding that position until his death. He was president of the South Carolina Medical Association in 1891. He died in York in 1897. A History of Medicine in South Carolina 1825-1900. Joseph Ioor Waring, 1967.	James	R.	1845	asst surgeon	5th S.C.V.
Brodie Robert Little Brodie Class of 1851 Robert Little Brodie was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on September 5, 1829. He studied medicine under Dr. Thomas Lewis Ogier and later graduated from the Medical College of the State of South Carolina in 1851. After two years as a resident physician at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, Brodie entered the U.S. Army as an assistant surgeon. He resigned his commission upon outbreak of the Civil War. Brodie helped organize the Confederate Medical Department and became medical director under General P. G. T. Beauregard. When the war ended, Brodie moved to Mobile, Alabama, for a time until returning to practice medicine in Charleston. He served as president of the Medical Society of South Carolina, president of the “Widows and Orphans Society,” and trustee of the South Carolina Training School for Nurses. He was surgeon of the United Confederate Veterans, Camp No. 250, until his death on October 2, 1913. A History of Medicine in South Carolina 1825-1900. Joseph Ioor Waring, 1967.	R.	L.	1851	medical director
Bryant	Javan		1861	asst surgeon
Buist John Somers Buist Class of 1861 John Somers Buist was born in Charleston in 1839. He attended the College of Charleston and graduated from the Medical College of the State of South Carolina in 1861. After graduating he immediately enlisted as a private in the Confederate Army. However, he soon began four years of service as a medical officer with the Hampton Legion and Haskell’s Artillery, attaining the rank of surgeon. After the Civil War he entered private practice in Charleston, where he was active in the work of the City Hospital, Roper Hospital, and the Marine Hospital. He was at first assistant professor of materia medica in the Medical College and subsequently became professor of general surgery. He was physician in chief of both Roper Hospital and City Hospital for ten years. Dr. Buist served as president of the Medical Society of South Carolina, a City Health Officer, and corresponding secretary of the South Carolina Medical Association. Dr. Buist produced a number of papers on surgical subjects. He died in 1910. A History of Medicine in South Carolina 1825-1900. Joseph Ioor Waring, 1967.	J.	Somers	1861	surgeon	Hampton's Legion
Bull	William	Izard	1860	asst surgeon	Gregg's 1st Regt.
Burnett	Andrew	W.	1861	surgeon	9th S.C. Cavalry
Burnham	Richard		1859	asst surgeon	16th S.C. Regt.
C
Calhoun	Franklin	R.	1857	surgeon	6th S.C. Cav.
Calhoun	John	W.	1846	asst surgeon
Cannon	John	L.	1855	asst surgeon
Carson	Lewis	D.	1860	asst surgeon
Carswell	William	A.	1856	surgeon
Chisolm	Julian	John	1850	surgeon
Coleman	Hamilton	A.	1860	asst surgeon	13th S.C.V.
Covert	John	M.	1855	asst surgeon
D
Darby	Charles	Sinkler	1860	asst surgeon
Dargan	T.	A.	1844	surgeon	21st S.C.V.
DaVega	Columbus		1852	surgeon
David	William	J.	1848	surgeon	8th (18th?) S.C.V.
Drummond	M.	W.	1856	asst surgeon	3rd S.C.V.
Dowling Elijah Henry Dowling, M.D. Class of 1855 Elijah Henry Dowling was born October 11, 1830 in Barnwell District, SC, to Elizabeth Zorn and Decania Dowling. He graduated in 1855 from the Medical College of the State of South Carolina. In 1860, Dr. Dowling was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Regiment. After the war ended, Dr. Dowling provided free medical services to the poor. Dr. Dowling died October 19, 1906 in Bamberg, SC. The Orangeburg Papers, Vol. I: The Writings of Marion Salley, 1970. Image courtesy of Mary E. Watts, D.M.D.	Elijah	Henry	1855
Dudley	John	G.	1848	asst surgeon
DuPont	Wilfred		1858	asst surgeon
Dupre	John	Y.	1850	asst surgeon	26th S.C.V.
E
Edmonds	Robert	H.	1850
Evans	James	R.	1861	surgeon	3rd S.C.V.
Ewart	David	E.	1851	surgeon	3rd S.C.V.
F
Fishburne	B.	C.	1856	surgeon
Fraser Henry DeSaussure Fraser Class of 1851 Born in Charleston on April 4, 1828, Henry DeSaussure Fraser graduated from the South Carolina College in 1848, and from the Medical College of the State of South Carolina in 1851. After receiving his degree he spent some time in Europe attending medical lectures and returned to Charleston in 1852 to being the practice of medicine. At the outbreak of the Civil War Dr. Fraser immediately entered the service of the Confederacy as a surgeon and served on the staff of General Richard H. Anderson. He was active at Gettysburg and remained with the wounded when Lee’s army fell back on Virginia. He was captured at his post and remained a prisoner for five months. He was a member of the Medical Society of South Carolina and the South Carolina Medical Association, being elected secretary of the latter in 1873. When the State Board of Health was organized in 1878, he was named as secretary and remained in this position until a few days prior to his death. He conducted a sanitary inspection of the towns and villages in the state and organized many local boards of health. Dr. Fraser died on February 8, 1895. A History of Medicine in South Carolina 1825-1900. Joseph Ioor Waring, 1967.	Henry	deS.	1851	surgeon
Frost	Francis	L.	1861	asst surgeon	1st S.C.V.
Frost	Henry	R.	1861	asst surgeon	1st Regt. Artillery