Surgeon C.S.A.∼06/01/1824 - Born, Kingwood, Preston Co., VA
1826 - Adopted by Mr. Israel Baldwin after the death of his father
- Attended Morgantown High School, Morgantown, VA
1844 - Graduated, Washington College, Washington, PA [now - Washington & Jefferson College]
1847-1849 - Attended, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Albemarle Co., VA
06/00/1849 - M.D. degree, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Albemarle Co., VA (from: Preston Co., VA)
1850 - Practiced medicine, 45th District, Preston Co., VA (indexed as Benjamin W. Allen)
[n.d.] - Attended a course of lectures, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
10/01/1850 - Married, Helen M. McCoy (she died in 1862)
1852-1861 - Demonstrator of Anatomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1860 - "Professor of Surgery", University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (living with H. M. Allen - born ~1830 - indexed in the 1860 Census as B. W. Allen)
07/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
07/15/1861 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
09/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
11/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
01/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
02/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
04/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
05/22/1862 - Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
07/19/1862 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 05/22/1862
07/20/1862 - Wife, Helen, died in Charlottesville, VA
08/00/1862 - Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
09/12/1862 - Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
11/00/1862 - Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
01/00/1863 - Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
06/00/1863 - Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Division 1, Charlottesville, VA
08/06/1863 - Surgeon, Charlottesville, VA
09/29/1863 - "Assistant [sic] Surgeon B. W. Allen will report to Surgeon in charge General Hospitals at Charlottesville, Virginia for assignment to duty, to date July 15, 1862" [S.O. 231/7] Docketing on a paper copy of this order eads as follows, "Richmond, Sept. 30, 1863, Respectfully returned to the Adjutant & Inspector General with the information that this Officer has been reported to me, and by me reported on the Consolidated return of Medical Officers as a Surgeon" Respectfully. Wm A Carrington - Med. Director
10/05/1863 - "Paragraph VII, Special Orders No. 231, current series, is hereby amended so as to read: Surgeon B. W. Allen will report to surgeon in charge general hospitals at Charlottesville, Va., for assignment to duty, to date May 22, 1862." [ S.O. 236/2]
11/00/1863 - Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Division 1, Charlottesville, VA
05/04/1864 - Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Division 1, Charlottesville, VA
05/05/1864 - Relieved from duty with the Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, and assigned to duty temporarily with the Reserve Medical Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
05/06/1864 - On detached duty
06/08/1864 - Ordered to report to Surgeon J[ames] L[awrence] Cabell, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, for assignment to duty
06/13/1864 - Ordered to return to his post and await orders for Reserve Surgical [Corps] duty with the Army in the [Shenandoah] Valley
07/00/1864 - Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Division 1, Charlottesville, VA
08/10/1864 - Ordered to duty as Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Mt. Jackson, VA by Medical Director W[illiam] A[llen] Carrington
08/14/1864 - Surgeon on duty with the Reserve Surgical Corps
08/21/1864 - Surgeon on duty with the Reserve Surgical Corps
09/00/1864 - Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Mt. Jackson, VA
12/05/1864 - "Surgeon B. W. Allen is relieved from duty at general hospital Charlottesville, Va., and is assigned in charge of general hospital Harrisonburg, Va." [S.O. 288/12]
12/15/1864 - Surgeon-in-charge, Gen. Hospital, Harrisonburg, VA
1867 - Moved his medical practice to Wheeling, Ohio Co., WV
1870 - Practiced medicine, Ward 3, Wheeling, Ohio Co., WV (indexed in the U.S. Census as Benj. W. Allen)
01/11/1872 - Married, Cornelia E. Jeffers, Ohio Co., WV (she died Oct. 23, 1887)
1874 - Practiced medicine, Wheeling, Ohio Co., WV
1877 - Practiced medicine, Wheeling, WV
1877 - Member, Medical Society of West Virginia
1878 - Physician-in-ordinary to lunatics, Ohio Co., WV
1878 - One of the physicians-in-charge, St. Mary's Hospital, Wheeling, WV
1878 - Regent, University of West Virginia
1880 - Practiced medicine, Wheeling, Ohio Co., WV (living with wife, Cornelia)
1882 - Professor of Anatomy, Physiology, & Hygiene, Morgantown State College, Morgantown, WV
1883 - President, Medical Society of West Virginia
1886 - Practiced medicine, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., WV
11/12/1886 - Died, Morgantown, Monongalia Co., WV
Bob Krick 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.
01/20/2015. Unpublished database.

Thanks to George Seitz for information about Dr. Allen's burial location.