Father: Dr. Joseph Chew
Mother: Mary Jane Lamme
Stepmother: Mary A. Moore
1850 - Lived, District 75, Ray Co., MO
1860 - M.D. degree, St. Louis Medical College [later this institution became the Medical Dept. of Washington University], St. Louis, MO (from MO)
06/20/1861 - Appointed Surgeon, 1st MO Regiment Infantry, 8th Division, Missouri State Guard
01/01/1862 - Enlisted, Pvt., Co. A, 6th MO Infantry, Confederate States Army, Springfield, MO (from Kansas City, Jackson, Co., MO)
01/01/1862 - Claimed he was appointed Asst. Surgeon on 01/01/1862 and assigned to duty as an Asst. Surgeon on the same date. [This appointment was probably by a commander in the field, not an official appointment from the Confederate Secretary of War in Richmond, Virginia.]
04/14/1862 - Documents show him to be an Acting Asst. Surgeon on this date
06/00/1862 - Pvt., Co. B, 3rd Battalion MO Infantry, Confederate States Army
07/02/1862 - Passed Army Board of Medical Examination for the position of Asst. Surgeon, Aberdeen, Monroe Co., MS
08/00/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Erwin's Battalion [3rd Battalion MO Infantry]
09/22/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Army of Mississippi, Tupelo, MS
09/26/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States to rank from 07/02/1862
09/26/1862 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
12/00/1862 - Assigned to duty as Asst. Surgeon, 3rd MO Infantry
12/12/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd MO Infantry
12/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd MO Infantry, Tuscahoma, MS
02/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd MO Infantry, Smith's Station, MS
02/06/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd MO Infantry, Green's Brigade, Gen. J. S. Bowen's Division
02/15/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd MO Infantry, Camp Pritchard, MS
04/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd MO Infantry, Grand Gulf, MS
05/22/1863 - Dr. Chew's horse was appraised by a duly appointed board for $375. This horse was killed in the siege of Vicksburg, MS
06/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd MO Infantry, Vicksburg, MS
08/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd MO Infantry, absent on leave
08/31/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd MO Infantry, 1st Brigade
10/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd MO Infantry, Meridian, MS
10/17/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd MO Infantry, Demopolis, AL
11/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd/5th [Consolidated] MO Infantry, Meridian, MS
11/04/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd MO Infantry, Gen. F. M. Cockrell's Brigade
11/14/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd/5th [Consolidated] MO Infantry, Atlanta, GA
11/28/1863 - Relieved from duty with the 3rd MO Infantry "by the consolidation with 5th [MO Infantry] will report to Maj. Gen. S. D. Lee commanding cavalry for assignment to temporary duty in [Gen. S. D.] Jackson's Cavalry Division" by command of Gen. J. E. Johnston, Meridian, MS [S. O. 258]
12/04/1863 - S.O. 44/1 suspended [S. O. 289/15]
12/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, "on duty with [Gen. S.D.] Lee's Cavalry"
12/20/1863 - Ordered to report to Brig. Gen. W. H. Jackson "for assignment to temporary duty with his division" [S. O. 71/1 Cavalry in Mississippi]
12/20/1863 - Ordered by Gen. W. H. Jackson, Grenada, MS, to report to Gen. Wirt Adams near Gallatin, TN, but not assigned to a command
01/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Wood's Regiment, Maj. Gen. S. D. Lee's Cavalry, 3rd Brigade (Wirt Adam's), Gen. W. H. Jackson's Division of Cavalry
01/02/1864 - Stationed, Brandon, Rankin Co., MS
02/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Wood's Regiment, Maj. Gen. S. D. Lee's Cavalry, 3rd Brigade (Wirt Adams'), Gen. S. W. Ferguson's Division
03/01/1864 - Requests a leave of absence for 40 days "for the purpose of consummating an engagement to marry"
03/10/1864 - Assigned to duty as Asst. Surgeon, 4th MS Cavalry
03/23/1864 - Granted 40 day leave of absence by command of Lt. Gen. Polk [S.O. 83/6 Dept. Ala., Miss. & E. La.]
04/26/1864 - Married, Annie Tempie Williams, Green Co., AL (she died 11/22/1926)
05/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 4th MS Cavalry, Gen. Wirt Adams' Brigade, Jackson's Cavalry Division, Maj. Gen. S.D. Lee's Cavalry Command
06/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, "on duty with [Gen. S. D.] Lee's Cavalry"
07/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 4th MS Cavalry
08/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, "on duty with Lee's Cavalry"
09/21/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 4th MS Cavalry, Grenada, MS
06/01/1865 - Asst. Surgeon, 4th MS Cavalry, Demopolis, AL
06/20/1865 - Paroled as Asst. Surgeon, 4th MS Cavalry, Demopolis, AL [his name was misspelled on the Union prisoner of war records as V. T. Cheer]
1880 - Practiced medicine, Precinct 6, Collin Co., TX
1893 - Practiced medicine, McKinney, Collin Co., TX
1900 - Practiced medicine, Justice Precinct 1, Fort Bend Co., TX
1903 - Practiced medicine, Rosenberg, Fort Bend Co., TX
1910 - Retired physician, Rosenberg, Fort Bend Co., TX
03/26/1911 - Died, Fort Bend Co., TX
12/01/1915 - Widow, Mrs. Annie T. Chew, received a pension from the State of Texas for her husband's Confederate Army service (pension # 32039). This continued until her death in 1926.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
10/13/2013. Updated 10/20/2013.
Unpublished database.

The following notes were added by the creator of this memorial, Charles M. Mayes:

Served during the Civil War as a Surgeon, 1st Missouri Infantry, Confederate States Army. Married Anne Chew who was born in Alabama on Sept 1846. They were married about 1865 and had four daughters and two sons. He was also a phycian in Fort Bend County, TX. He is the son of Joseph Chew & Mary A Chew