Father: Dr. William H. Gibbs, Sr.
Mother: Mary Rumford
1862 - M.D. degree, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA (from: VA)
10/02/1862 - Signed contract as Acting Asst. Surgeon
10/06/1862 - Assigned as Acting Asst. Surgeon to Camp Winder Hospital, Richmond, VA
12/00/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, 4th Division (Louisiana Hospital), Camp Winder Hospital, Richmond, VA
01/00/1863 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, 3rd Division, Camp Winder Hospital, Richmond, VA
02/09/1863 - Contract cancelled by Medical Director
06/17/1863 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Buchanan, Botetourt, Co., VA
06/00/1863 - Ordered to report to Surgeon Hunter, 1st Brigade, Gen, J. Echols' Division by Asst. Adjutant General Catlett
07/01/1863 to July 17, 1863 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Montgomery Springs, VA, at $100/mo.
09/01/1863 - Signed another contract as Acting Asst. Surgeon
09/01/1863 - As Acting Asst. Surgeon, ordered to report to Louisiana Hospital, Richmond, VA
11/00/1863 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Louisiana Hospital, Richmond, VA
11/20/1863 - As Acting Asst. Surgeon, ordered to report to Gen. Hospital No. 21 (C. S. Military Prison Hospital), Richmond, VA
11/21/1863 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 21, Richmond, VA
02/00/1864 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 21, Richmond, VA
04/00/1864 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 21, Richmond, VA
06/00/1864 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 21, Richmond, VA
08/00/1864 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 21, Richmond, VA
10/00/1864 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 21, Richmond, VA
12/00/1864 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 21, Richmond, VA
01/04/1865 - Reported back for duty, Gen. Hospital No. 21, Richmond, VA
01/05/1865 - Transferred to duty at Prison Barracks [?Richmond, VA]
04/03/1865 - Captured as Acting Asst. Surgeon, Richmond, VA
04/06/1865 - Paroled as prisoner of war, Richmond, VA
04/08/1865 - Married, Lemira Virginia "Lee" Smith, Richmond, VA (she died in 1917)
1880 - Druggist, Richmond, Henrico Co., VA (living with his wife)
1886 - Practiced medicine, 1000 W. Floyd, Richmond, VA
1890 - Practiced medicine, 736 W. Broad, Richmond, VA
06/14/1900 - Practiced medicine, Brookland Magisterial District, Henrico Co., VA [living with his wife]
04/18/1910 - Retired, lodger, Precinct 1, Richmond, Henrico Co., VA (living with his wife)
06/05/1910 - Died of apoplexy at the home of his nephew, F. Ellis Jones, Richmond, VA

Jeffry Burden, the creator of this memorial, provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
12/21/2014. Unpublished database.