Father: Edward Dudley Alfriend
Mother: Anne Nancy Hamilton
1839 - M.D. degree, Medical College of GA, Augusta, GA
01/04/1841 - Married, Mary Elizabeth Dunn, Greene Co., GA (she died in 1896)
1850 - May have been the Edward W. Alfriend who owned 7 slaves in Taliaferro Co., GA
06/07/1860 - Practiced medicine, Hancock Co, GA (living with wife and 5 children)
07/15/1861 - Appointed Surgeon, state of GA, by election
07/17/1861 - Entered GA state service, 15th GA Infantry
07/19/1861 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
08/01/1861 - Mustered into Confederate service, 15th GA Infantry
08/00/1861 - Surgeon, 15th GA Infantry, Camp Walker, Bull Run, VA
12/30/1861 - Given 30 day furlough
01/02/1862 - Wrote from Richmond, VA, to Medical Director, T. H. Williams, "Dear Sir I have the honor to inform you that by virtue of sick furlough granted from Head Quarters of General G W Smith, I am absent from my Regt & will be for Sixty days at my home at Sparta Geo. During my absence I will report to you as required by General Order of A.P [Army of the Potomac] Very respectfully & truly yours E. W Alfriend Surgeon 15th Regt Geo Vols"
02/00/1862 - Surgeon, 15th GA Infantry - "Not returned from leave of absence. Leave expired"
[no date - probably ~02/00/1862] - Wrote to an unknown physician, possibly the Medical Director, Army of the Potomac, "Doctor, Can I ask of you a small favor as follows. If during my absence a prospect of a fight should grow strong will you telegraph me at Sparta [Geo.] , through Henry Baker of Augusta, Geo. I desire very much to be with my regiment & I would rather rely on you to give me the correct almost certain information on the
subject. Truly your friend E W Alfriend"
04/00/1862 - Sick, Orange Court House, VA
05/14/1862 - Wrote letter to his childhood friend, Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President C.S.A., Crawfordsville, GA [possibly wrote about his illness and his desire to resign]
05/15/1862 - Senior Surgeon, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Potomac
07/08/1862 - Received a Certificate of Disability from Surgeon Henry F. Campbell, 2nd GA Hospital, Richmond, VA for chronic bronchitis superimposing on chronic asthma
07/08/1862 - Applied to Hon. G . W. Randolph, Confederate Secretary of War for twenty days leave of absence
07/09/1862 - Tendered resignation to the Confederate Secretary of War based on physical disability and Dr. Henry F. Campbell's Certificate of Disability
07/14/1862 - Resigned from 15th GA Infantry, disability
02/01/1863 - As private M.D., served on board for examining conscripts, 5th Congressional District, Decatur, GA
06/16/1863 - Signed receipt for pay as Member, Medical Board for Examining Conscripts, 5th Cong. Dist., Decatur GA
09/23/1863 - As private M.D., served on board for examining conscripts, 5th Congressional District, Decatur, GA
11/09/1863 - Signed receipt for pay as Member, Medical Board for Examining Conscripts, 5th Cong. Dist., Decatur, GA
06/12/1864 - Lived, Augusta, GA
06/12/1864 - Signed contract as Acting Asst. Surgeon with Confederate Medical Director, N.S. Crowell, Charleston, SC and ordered to report to the Surgeon General, Richmond, VA
07/00/1864 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Winder Hospital, Richmond, VA
07/03/1864 - Ordered to Petersburg, VA, by the Medical Director
06/28/1870 - Practiced medicine, Lee Co, GA (living with wife, Mary E. - indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as E. W. Friend)
1874 - Practiced medicine, Sparta, Hancock Co, GA
06/23/1880 - Practiced medicine, Albany, Dougherty Co, GA (living with wife, Mary E., and one daughter)
- Ruling Elder, Presbyterian Church, Albany, Dougherty Co., GA
03/04/1887 - Died of a "malignant type of dysentery", Albany, Dougherty Co., GA

Note: Dr. Alfriend was a friend and physician to Alexander H. Stephens, former vice-president of the Confederate States of America.

Note: An interesting and informative obituary can be found in:
The Weekly News and Advertiser, Albany, Dougherty Co., GA, March 12, 1887, p. 3, c. 3 & 4. Thanks to "Louisiana" and to Brenda A. Darbyshire, the creator of this memorial.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
06/19/2011. Updated 03/31/2015.
Unpublished database.