07/29/1840 - Born, Schwersenz, Pozen, Prussia (now Pozann, Poland). Father: Bernhard Baruch (1820-1897); Mother: Theresa Gruen (1820-1920)
- Educated at the Royal Gymnasium, Posen, Prussia
09/07/1860 - Merchant Master, Camden, Kershaw Co., SC (living with his brother H. Baruch - 16 y.o. male - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as "Simeon Barach")
00/00/1861 - Attended classes, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (preceptors: Dr. Thomas J. Workman & Dr. Lynch Horry Deas) [Note: School closed during the Civil War before he could complete his studies for graduation]
1862 - M.D. degree, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA (from: South Carolina)
04/04/1862 - "The following medical officers will proceed at once to Pocotaligo, South Carolina, and report for duty to Major General [J. C.] Pemberton, Commanding . . . . Assistant Surgeon Simon Baruch" [S.O. 77/4]
04/06/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, 3rd SC Infantry Battalion
04/30/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 04/04/1862
06/22/1862 - Asst. Surgeon in charge, 3rd SC Infantry Battalion
09/00/1862 - Captured by U.S. Army, Boonsboro, MD, after Battle of South Mountain, MD
09/26/1862 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon from South Carolina by the Confederate States Senate
00/00/1862 - Prisoner, Fortress Monroe, VA
00/00/1862 - Exchanged, Aiken's Landing on the James River
09/26/1862 - Confirmed, Asst. Surgeon, Confederate States Senate
07/02/1863 - "We had scarcely opened our battlefield supplies and hurriedly set up operating tables, constructed of doors laid upon dry goods boxes and barrels, when the ambulances began to bring their sad load, the result of the charge on the [batteries] in the peach orchard. . . . All day and all night the work continued at the field hospital, and throughout [July 3] also the wounded came pouring in, many on foot, among them several captured Union Soldiers, on two of whom I operated [on] attending them like our own [Brown, K. M. (2005 Retreat from Gettysburg. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, p. 54)
07/03/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Blackhorse Tavern Hospital, Gen. J. B. Kershaw's
Brigade, Gen. L. McLaw's Division, near Gettysburg, PA
07/04/1863 - "The morning found us amid novel surroundings. The slightly wounded had been removed, most of them being able to march. The field hospital contained now two hundred and twenty- two seriously wounded men, ten orderlies and three surgeons. (Brown. "Retreat from Gettysburg". p. 114.)
07/00/1863 - Captured by U.S. Army, Gettysburg, PA
08/11/1863 - Admitted as Prisoner of War, Ft. McHenry, Baltimore, MD
11/20/1863 - As a Prisoner of War, transferred to City Point, VA, for exchange
12/05/1863 - As Asst. Surgeon, ordered to report to Surgeon C. B. Gamble in charge of hospitals, Newnan, GA, for assignment to duty
11/04/1864 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 07/18/1864
09/00/1864 - Published paper entitled "Two cases of penetrating bayonet wounds of the chest", Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal. vol. 1, no. 9, pp. 133-134.
08/11/1864 - "The following Medical Officers will report without delay to Medical Director [J. S. D.] Cullen, Longstreet's Corps. . . . S. Baruch" [S.O. 189/42]
08/31/1864 - Surgeon, 13th MS Infantry, Brucetown, VA
10/06/1864 - As Surgeon, 13th MS Infantry, admitted as a patient to Gen. Hospital No. 4, Richmond, VA (diagnosis: diarrhea)
10/31/1864 - Surgeon, 13th MS Infantry
12/08/1864 - As Surgeon, 13th MS Infantry, admitted as patient, Private Quarters, Richmond, VA
12/12/1864 - Patient of Surgeon A. Y. P. Garnett, Richmond, VA
12/17/1864 - Confirmed as Surgeon from SC by the Confederate States Senate
12/23/1864 - Granted 30 days leave of absence by the C. S. Secretary of War [S.O. 304/17]
01/17/1865 - As Surgeon, 13th MS Infantry, reported as absent without leave
02/03/1865 - As Surgeon, 13th MS Infantry, applied for a transfer
02/27/1865 - "Surgeon, S Baruch, Thirteenth Mississippi Regiment is relieved from duty with Army of Northern Virginia (on certificate of disability,) and directed to report for duty to Surgeon [P.E.] Hines, medical director, Raleigh, N.C." [S.O. 48/37]
02/00/1865 - Surgeon-in-charge, Smallpox Hospital, Goldsboro, NC
03/16/1865 - Surgeon-in-charge, Hospital, Thomasville, NC
03/25/1865 - In a letter written from Thomasville, NC, to Surgeon General S. P. Moore, Richmond, VA, "Sir, I have the honor to report receipt of supplies shipped by Med. Purv. Hugh Stockdell to me at Goldsboro, N. C., They were in good order and corresponded with the invoice sent me with the exception of six yards Gutta percha cloth which I did not receive. I am sir, very respectfully, your obt. sevt, S. Baruch, Surgeon P.A.C.S."
03/00/1865 - 04/00/1865 - Incapacitated by typhoid fever for two weeks.
04/09/1865 - Patient, Gen. Hospital, Thomasville, NC [Note: After he had recovered, he learned that Lee had surrendered and that he had been paroled by the U. S. Army.]
11/27/1867 - Married, Isabelle "Belle" Wolfe (1850-1921), Manhattan, New York, NY
1867 - Practiced medicine, Camden, SC
1873 - President, Medical Association of South Carolina
1874 - Corresponding Secretary, Kershaw District [SC] Medical Association
1874,1877 - Practiced medicine, Camden, Kershaw Co., SC
06/03/1880 - Practiced medicine, Camden, Kershaw Co., SC
1880 - Chairman, South Carolina State Board of Health
1886 - Practiced medicine, 43 E. 59th St., New York City, NY
1890 - Practiced medicine, 46 E. 50th St., New York City, NY
1893 - Practiced medicine, 51 W. 70th St., New York City, NY
1896 - Practiced medicine with his son, Dr. Herman Benjamin Baruch 51 W. 70th St., New York City, NY
03/22/1897 - Father, Bernhard, died
1900 - Practiced medicine with his son, Dr. Herman Benjamin Baruch, 51 W. 70th St., New York City, NY
04/21/1910 - Practiced medicine, Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York County, NY (lived with his ife "Isabel" and two granddaughters - indexed In the 1910 U.S. Census as Simon Baruch)
01/18/1920 - Retired physician, Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York County, NY (lived with wife, "Belle" - indexed in the 1920 U.S. Census as "Simon Burch")
00/00/1920 - Mother, Theresa, died
- Wrote extensively on hydrotherapy
- Introduced municipal public bathes in the United States
- Medical editor of the New York Sun newspaper
- Professor, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY
06/03/1921 - Died of a disorder of his lungs complicated by heart disease, Manhattan, New York City, NY (buried: Flushing Cemetery, Flushing, Queens Co., New York)
11/24/1921 - Widow, Isabelle, died in Manhattan, New York County, NY (buried: Flushing Cemetery, Flushing, Queens Co., New York)

Note: For more details on the life of Dr. Simon Baruch, see:
Ward, Patricia Spain (1994) Simon Baruch: Rebel in the ranks of medicine (1840-1921). University of Alabama Press. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 416 p.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
08/01/2018. Unpublished database.

The following was added by Ed, the creator of this memorial:

Dr. Baruch was a Civil War physician for the Confederacy who was captured twice in battle. He was the first surgeon to successfully operate on a ruptured appendix. In 1880 he moved to New York City, where he encouraged and promoted the use of hydrotherapy to treat and prevent disease by bathing. He built the Rivington Street Public Bath-house on the lower east side of New York so that indigent immigrants could have a clean place to bathe. He also designed the baths at Saratoga Springs, New York. He was the father of four children, including the financier and Presidential adviser, Bernard M. Baruch.