He was the son of Brian (later changed to Bernard) Byrne (1775-1829) and Mary Russell Byrne (born 1769).
In 1818, he emigrated with his family from Ireland to Maryland.
On November 17, 1851 as Bernard M. Byrne, he married Louisa Albert at the District of Columbia.
The Charleston Daily Courier Saturday, September 8, 1860
Death Of Dr. B.M. Byrne
We announce with regret the decease of an esteemed friend and correspondent, Surgeon Bernard M. Byrne, M.D., of the United States Army Medical Starr and for three years attending physician at the Fort Moultrie Station, on Sullivan's Island. His disease was typhoid fever, of a virulent form and terminated fatally on Thursday evening, the 6th instant, in his forty-sixth year.
Dr. Byrne was a native of Ireland, but reached this country at an early age and after preparatory education, graduated with distinction in the University of Maryland. After completing his medical course, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army and stationed at Fort Monroe, on the 20th of May 1836, under Colonel J.L. Gardner, who is not in command at Fort Moultrie. He passed a first class examination on his admission as Surgeon. He did active and efficient service as Surgeon in Florida, Mexico and on the Pacific and was also stationed for some time at the Newport (Kentucky) Barracks. In Mexico, he was a Medical Director for his department of the army and in Florida he encountered both the cholera and yellow fever, which he treated with great success.
His active and zealous spirit could not be restricted to medical service alone. At Palo Alton, Reseca de la Palma, Monterey, Saltillo and Buena Vista, he took an honorable part in the thickest of the contest. He was by the side of the gallant Ringgold and bore that officer off when he fell mortally wounded. Dr. Byrnes' name will be found with honorable mention in several despatches and reports from General Taylor, General Wool and other officers who have commanded Divisions to which he was attached.
As a writer, also, he nobly used and improved his powers of observation and his varied experience for the benefit of his profession and of military hygiene. His treatise on Cholera has been officially approved by the Government and is now used as a text book in the Medical Department of the British Army. He leaves in manuscript and nearly ready for the printer, a treatise on yellow fever, which, we trust, will soon be given to the public under competent supervision. As an occasional contributor to periodicals and newspapers, he was also the author of much instruction.
We deem it a mournful privilege to record now that he was the author if the very interesting correspondence and well written essays on Florida and Texas, which appeared in these columns over the signature of Verdad and have been extensively reprinted and approved. With all the warmth and largeness of heart characteristic of his countrymen, Dr. Byrne was devoted to his friends and almost idolatrously attached to his family, with whose bereavement many will sympathise.
The funeral services were discharged on Friday evening, on Sullivan's Island, by Rev. James A. Corcoran, D.D., of this city and by the Chaplain of the Fort, the flag being through the day at the half-staff. The body has been temporarily interred with a view to removal to Washington at a suitable season.
In 1818, he emigrated with his family from Ireland to Maryland.
On November 17, 1851 as Bernard M. Byrne, he married Louisa Albert at the District of Columbia.
The Charleston Daily Courier Saturday, September 8, 1860
Death Of Dr. B.M. Byrne
We announce with regret the decease of an esteemed friend and correspondent, Surgeon Bernard M. Byrne, M.D., of the United States Army Medical Starr and for three years attending physician at the Fort Moultrie Station, on Sullivan's Island. His disease was typhoid fever, of a virulent form and terminated fatally on Thursday evening, the 6th instant, in his forty-sixth year.
Dr. Byrne was a native of Ireland, but reached this country at an early age and after preparatory education, graduated with distinction in the University of Maryland. After completing his medical course, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army and stationed at Fort Monroe, on the 20th of May 1836, under Colonel J.L. Gardner, who is not in command at Fort Moultrie. He passed a first class examination on his admission as Surgeon. He did active and efficient service as Surgeon in Florida, Mexico and on the Pacific and was also stationed for some time at the Newport (Kentucky) Barracks. In Mexico, he was a Medical Director for his department of the army and in Florida he encountered both the cholera and yellow fever, which he treated with great success.
His active and zealous spirit could not be restricted to medical service alone. At Palo Alton, Reseca de la Palma, Monterey, Saltillo and Buena Vista, he took an honorable part in the thickest of the contest. He was by the side of the gallant Ringgold and bore that officer off when he fell mortally wounded. Dr. Byrnes' name will be found with honorable mention in several despatches and reports from General Taylor, General Wool and other officers who have commanded Divisions to which he was attached.
As a writer, also, he nobly used and improved his powers of observation and his varied experience for the benefit of his profession and of military hygiene. His treatise on Cholera has been officially approved by the Government and is now used as a text book in the Medical Department of the British Army. He leaves in manuscript and nearly ready for the printer, a treatise on yellow fever, which, we trust, will soon be given to the public under competent supervision. As an occasional contributor to periodicals and newspapers, he was also the author of much instruction.
We deem it a mournful privilege to record now that he was the author if the very interesting correspondence and well written essays on Florida and Texas, which appeared in these columns over the signature of Verdad and have been extensively reprinted and approved. With all the warmth and largeness of heart characteristic of his countrymen, Dr. Byrne was devoted to his friends and almost idolatrously attached to his family, with whose bereavement many will sympathise.
The funeral services were discharged on Friday evening, on Sullivan's Island, by Rev. James A. Corcoran, D.D., of this city and by the Chaplain of the Fort, the flag being through the day at the half-staff. The body has been temporarily interred with a view to removal to Washington at a suitable season.
He was the son of Brian (later changed to Bernard) Byrne (1775-1829) and Mary Russell Byrne (born 1769).
In 1818, he emigrated with his family from Ireland to Maryland.
On November 17, 1851 as Bernard M. Byrne, he married Louisa Albert at the District of Columbia.
The Charleston Daily Courier Saturday, September 8, 1860
Death Of Dr. B.M. Byrne
We announce with regret the decease of an esteemed friend and correspondent, Surgeon Bernard M. Byrne, M.D., of the United States Army Medical Starr and for three years attending physician at the Fort Moultrie Station, on Sullivan's Island. His disease was typhoid fever, of a virulent form and terminated fatally on Thursday evening, the 6th instant, in his forty-sixth year.
Dr. Byrne was a native of Ireland, but reached this country at an early age and after preparatory education, graduated with distinction in the University of Maryland. After completing his medical course, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army and stationed at Fort Monroe, on the 20th of May 1836, under Colonel J.L. Gardner, who is not in command at Fort Moultrie. He passed a first class examination on his admission as Surgeon. He did active and efficient service as Surgeon in Florida, Mexico and on the Pacific and was also stationed for some time at the Newport (Kentucky) Barracks. In Mexico, he was a Medical Director for his department of the army and in Florida he encountered both the cholera and yellow fever, which he treated with great success.
His active and zealous spirit could not be restricted to medical service alone. At Palo Alton, Reseca de la Palma, Monterey, Saltillo and Buena Vista, he took an honorable part in the thickest of the contest. He was by the side of the gallant Ringgold and bore that officer off when he fell mortally wounded. Dr. Byrnes' name will be found with honorable mention in several despatches and reports from General Taylor, General Wool and other officers who have commanded Divisions to which he was attached.
As a writer, also, he nobly used and improved his powers of observation and his varied experience for the benefit of his profession and of military hygiene. His treatise on Cholera has been officially approved by the Government and is now used as a text book in the Medical Department of the British Army. He leaves in manuscript and nearly ready for the printer, a treatise on yellow fever, which, we trust, will soon be given to the public under competent supervision. As an occasional contributor to periodicals and newspapers, he was also the author of much instruction.
We deem it a mournful privilege to record now that he was the author if the very interesting correspondence and well written essays on Florida and Texas, which appeared in these columns over the signature of Verdad and have been extensively reprinted and approved. With all the warmth and largeness of heart characteristic of his countrymen, Dr. Byrne was devoted to his friends and almost idolatrously attached to his family, with whose bereavement many will sympathise.
The funeral services were discharged on Friday evening, on Sullivan's Island, by Rev. James A. Corcoran, D.D., of this city and by the Chaplain of the Fort, the flag being through the day at the half-staff. The body has been temporarily interred with a view to removal to Washington at a suitable season.
In 1818, he emigrated with his family from Ireland to Maryland.
On November 17, 1851 as Bernard M. Byrne, he married Louisa Albert at the District of Columbia.
The Charleston Daily Courier Saturday, September 8, 1860
Death Of Dr. B.M. Byrne
We announce with regret the decease of an esteemed friend and correspondent, Surgeon Bernard M. Byrne, M.D., of the United States Army Medical Starr and for three years attending physician at the Fort Moultrie Station, on Sullivan's Island. His disease was typhoid fever, of a virulent form and terminated fatally on Thursday evening, the 6th instant, in his forty-sixth year.
Dr. Byrne was a native of Ireland, but reached this country at an early age and after preparatory education, graduated with distinction in the University of Maryland. After completing his medical course, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army and stationed at Fort Monroe, on the 20th of May 1836, under Colonel J.L. Gardner, who is not in command at Fort Moultrie. He passed a first class examination on his admission as Surgeon. He did active and efficient service as Surgeon in Florida, Mexico and on the Pacific and was also stationed for some time at the Newport (Kentucky) Barracks. In Mexico, he was a Medical Director for his department of the army and in Florida he encountered both the cholera and yellow fever, which he treated with great success.
His active and zealous spirit could not be restricted to medical service alone. At Palo Alton, Reseca de la Palma, Monterey, Saltillo and Buena Vista, he took an honorable part in the thickest of the contest. He was by the side of the gallant Ringgold and bore that officer off when he fell mortally wounded. Dr. Byrnes' name will be found with honorable mention in several despatches and reports from General Taylor, General Wool and other officers who have commanded Divisions to which he was attached.
As a writer, also, he nobly used and improved his powers of observation and his varied experience for the benefit of his profession and of military hygiene. His treatise on Cholera has been officially approved by the Government and is now used as a text book in the Medical Department of the British Army. He leaves in manuscript and nearly ready for the printer, a treatise on yellow fever, which, we trust, will soon be given to the public under competent supervision. As an occasional contributor to periodicals and newspapers, he was also the author of much instruction.
We deem it a mournful privilege to record now that he was the author if the very interesting correspondence and well written essays on Florida and Texas, which appeared in these columns over the signature of Verdad and have been extensively reprinted and approved. With all the warmth and largeness of heart characteristic of his countrymen, Dr. Byrne was devoted to his friends and almost idolatrously attached to his family, with whose bereavement many will sympathise.
The funeral services were discharged on Friday evening, on Sullivan's Island, by Rev. James A. Corcoran, D.D., of this city and by the Chaplain of the Fort, the flag being through the day at the half-staff. The body has been temporarily interred with a view to removal to Washington at a suitable season.
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