Father: Byrd Hoskins
Mother: Elizabeth Garrett
1855 - M.D., Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, PA [from VA]
12/24/1857 - Married, Janette Carter Roy,
Essex, VA
1860 - Practiced medicine,
King and Queen Co, VA
06/07/1861 - Enlisted in the Provisional Army
of the Confederate States, King and
Queen Court House, VA
06/10/1861 - Mustered in as 3rd Lt., Co E,
5th VA Cavalry, Gloucester Point, VA
(Value of horse = $150, value of
equipment = $15)
06/30/1861 - 2nd Lt., 4th VA Cavalry
10/11/1861 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon,
Provisional Army of the Confederate States
10/11/1861 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon
by the Confederate States Senate [from VA]
10/11/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 26th VA Infantry,
Chaffin's Bluff, VA
02/00/1862 - Asst. Post Surgeon,
Gloucester Point, VA
11/12/1862 - Absent, sick
12/08/1862 - Ordered to accompany a detail
of the 26th VA Infantry to New Kent Co, VA
01/04/1863 - Returned to 26th VA Infantry
from detached duty, Burton's Farm, VA
02/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 26th VA Infantry
08/16/1863 - Applied for a furlough on the
basis of chronic dysentery
09/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 26th VA Infantry,
Wapoo Cut, SC
09/21/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 26th VA Infantry,
Charleston, SC
09/26/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 26th VA Infantry
12/21/1863 - Passed Army Board of Medical
Examination for position as Surgeon,
Charleston, SC
12/28/1863 - Relieved from duty with the
26th VA Infantry and ordered to the
59th VA Infantry
12/28/1863 - Reported as Surgeon,
59th VA Infantry
01/00/1864 - Surgeon, 59th VA Infantry,
near Baldwin, FL
06/01/1864 - Appointed Surgeon to rank
from 12/21/1863
06/01/1864 - Confirmed as Surgeon by the
Confederate States Senate [from VA]
08/31/1864 - Surgeon, 59th VA Infantry,
Petersburg, VA
09/26/1864 - Surgeon, Defenses of
Petersburg, VA
02/28/1865 - Surgeon, 59th VA Infantry,
Petersburg, VA
04/09/1865 - Surrendered, Appomattox, VA
1870 - Practiced medicine, Stevensville,
King and Queen Co, VA
1874 - Representative in the VA Legislature
1880 - Farmer, King and Queen Co, VA
1886,1890,1893 - Practiced medicine,
Carlton's Store, King and Queen Co, VA
06/14/1895 - Died in his home near
Carlton's Store, King and Queen Co, VA
(buried in the family burying ground at
Popular Grove, near Stevensville,
King and Queen Co, VA
1905 - Dr. William Hoskins' portrait was
hung in the King and Queen Court House,
King and Queen County, VA

Note: This physician has been misidentified
as William Haskins.

From: Hambrecht, F.T. and Koste, J.L.,
Biographical register of physicians who
served the Confederacy in a medical capacity
(09/01/2009 and updated 08/17/2017).
Unpublished database.