Father: Titus Lucretius Bissell, Jr. (1802-1869)
Mother: Claudia Eliza Bennett (1812-1884)
1850 - Lived, Carlowville, Dallas, Co., AL
1857-1860 - Attended, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston,, SC
1860 - M.D. degree, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (from: St. Augustine, FL and Charleston, SC; preceptors: Dr. Peck and Dr. Hay; thesis: "On the Intracapsular Fracture of the Neck and Femur")
06/18/1860 - Practiced medicine, Charleston, SC (lived with his parents & sibs - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as H. E. Bissell)
-12/01/1861 - Assigned as Acting Asst. Surgeon, South Carolina Hospital Manchester, VA, Confederate States of America
12/01/1861-04/30/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, South Carolina Hospital, Manchester, VA (paid $80/mo.)
01/00/1863 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, South Carolina Hospital, Manchester, VA
02/09/1863 - Contract, cancelled
03/11/1863 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, South Carolina Hospital, Manchester, VA
05/28/1863 - Assigned as Acting Asst. Surgeon, Howard's Grove Gen. Hospital, Richmond, VA [S.O. Medical Director's Office]
07/00/1863 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Howard's Grove Gen. Hospital, Richmond, VA
09/00/1863 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Howard's Grove Gen. Hospital, Richmond, VA
12/00/1863 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Howard's Grove Gen. Hospital, Richmond, VA
01/19/1864 - Relieved from duty [S.O. 13 Medical Director's Office]
01/21/1864 - In a letter to Surgeon W. A. Carrington, Medical Director "Sir, In obedience to your orders, I, on this day reported in chg Small Pox Hosp. for duty,
Very Respectfully, Your obt. Servt. H. :E. Bissell A. A. Surg, Small Pox Hosp."
03/00/1864 - Contract as Acting Asst. Surgeon, Small Pox Hospital, cancelled
06/08/1864 - Assigned to the duty of establishing a hospital in Anderson C.H., SC [S.O. 156/5 Dept. of S.C., Ga., and Fla. Gen. Sam Jones]
07/27/1864 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Wayside Hospital, Anderson C.H., SC
09/17/1864 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Wayside Hospital, Anderson C.H., SC
09/17/1864 - As Acting Asst. Surgeon ordered to report to the Surgeon-in-Charge, Hospital #1, Summerville, SC [S.O. 229/2 Dept. of S.C., Ga., and Fla. Gen. Sam Jones]
11/21/1864 - Ordered to report to the Surgeon in Charge, Gen. Hospital #2, Summerville, SC [S.O. 282/5 Dept. of S.C., Ga., and Fla. Gen. Hardee]
11/08/1869 - Father, Titus, died in Charleston, SC
07/25/1870 - Practiced medicine, Charleston, SC (lived with sibs - indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as Henry E. Bissell)
1876 - "Took a prominent part in politics during the troublous days of 1876, and his conduct in the rice field riots of that year will not soon be forgotten. By his well known probity and overwhelming kindness he quited the numerous cold herds; by his cheerfulness he enlivened the camp of the besieged and by his courage he strengthened the weak heart." [Tribute by W. E. Capers, Walterboro, SC, as published in The Evening Post, Charleston, SC, Jan. 17, 1899, p.3, c. 4.]
1876 - Due to "finanancial difficulties that resulted from labor unrest", J. Bennett Bissell (1836-1892), brother of Dr. Henry Edward Bissell, put Bonny Hall Plantation [Beaufort Co., SC] in trust for Dr. Bissell
06/10/1880 - Farmer, Blake, Colleton Co., SC (indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as H.E. Bissell)
1880 - Elected to the South Carolina State Legislature for a term of two years
08/02/1884 - Mother, Claudia, died of valvular disease of the heart, Charleston, SC (buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, SC)
1896 - Conveyed Bonny Hall Plantation [Beaufort Co., SC] to Sarah H. Bissell, widow of his late brother, J. Bennett Bissell
- Member, Citadel Square Baptist Church, Charleston, SC
- Member, Palmetto Guards, Camp No. 15, Confederate Veterans
1897 - Served on the Colleton County [South Carolina] Board of Health
01/05/1899 - Died at his residence on the corner of Lucas and Calhoun streets after a short illness, Charleston, SC (buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, SC)

Note: A former slave, Amos Gadsden, stated,"I went to Virginia with Dr. H. E. Bissell in the army; he was a surgeon." [Statement by Amos Gadsden (1938) in: Slave Narratives, Vol XIV, South Carolina, Part 2, A folk history of slavery in the United States from interviews with former slaves. Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of South Carolina.]

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
04/19/2017. Unpublished database.