1849 - M.D. degree, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA (from: VA; thesis: "Cholera Infantum")
09/17/1850 - Practiced medicine, Campbell Co., VA (lived with the William Moore family; indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as David E. Bass)
07/20/1860 - Practiced medicine, Eastern District, Campbell Co., VA (lived alone; indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as David E. Bass)
06/07/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
06/07/1862 - "Asst. Surgeon D. E. Bass is assigned to duty at the General Hospital in this City [?Richmond, VA], and will report accordingly to the Surgeon in Charge." [S.O. 131/11]
08/19/1862 - "Asst. Surgeon David E. Bass will proceed without delay to Gordonsville,
Virginia, and report to Surgeon Lafayette Guild, Medical Director, Army of Northern Virginia, for Infirmary duty." [S.O. 193/29]
09/23/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Culpeper C.H. VA
09/24/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, ordered to report to Gen. Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
10/02/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, reported for duty, Gen. Hospital No. 2, Lynchburg, VA
10/25/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, relieved from duty at Gen. Hospital No. 2, Lynchburg, VA, "on account of sickness"
12/31/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 2, Lynchburg, VA
01/31/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 2, Lynchburg, VA
02/25/1863 - Furloughed as Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 2, Lynchburg, VA
04/24/1863 - "The following named Medical Officers will report to Surgeon [Frank A.] Ramsey Medical Director, Department of East Tennessee, A.T., for assignment to duty . . . . .Assistant Surgeon D. E. Bass, . . . ." [S.O. 100/3]
05/09/1863 - "Asst Surgn D. E. Bass is assigned to duty in the 3rd Congressional Examining Board Hd. Qrs in Knoxville, By order of E. D. Blake, Lt. Col. Comd' Conscripts, by J. M. Driver, Chief Surg., Conscripts"
05/10/1863 - In a letter from the Medical Director's Office, Knoxville, Tennessee, "Asst Surgn D. E. Bass will immediately report to Lt. Col. E. D. Blake, Comdg, Conscript, for assignment to duty, until further orders from this office. Frank A. Ramsey, Surgn & Med Director"
06/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Examining Board for Conscripts, Knoxville, TN
07/23/1863 - Purchased a horse from a quartermaster for $150 in Knoxville, TN
07/31/1863 - As Asst. Surgeon, stationed at Knoxville, TN
08/30/1863 - As Asst. Surgeon, stationed at Cleveland, TN
09/05/1863 - As Asst. Surgeon, stationed at Cleveland, TN
09/10/1863 - As Asst. Surgeon, stationed in Atlanta, GA
09/15/1863 - Ordered to report to Brig. Gen. G. J. Pillow at Marietta, GA, on September 16, 1863,
09/17/1863 - As Asst. Surgeon, stationed in Atlanta, GA
09/26/1863 - As Asst. Surgeon, stationed in Decatur, GA
12/31/1863 - As Asst. Surgeon, stationed in Decatur, GA
03/23/1864 - "The following medical officers will report without delay to the Commandant of Conscripts for Alabama, for assignment to duty as designated . . . Surgeon D. E. Bass, 6th Cong. Dist.. . . . ." [S.O. 69/2]
04/26/1864 - As Asst. Surgeon, stationed in Montgomery, AL
05/09/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Medical Examining Board, Conscript Department, District 2, State of Alabama
05/15/1864 - As Asst. Surgeon, stationed in Tuscaloosa AL
07/01/1864 - As Asst. Surgeon and member of a Medical Examining Board, stationed in Tuscaloosa AL
08/01/1864 - As Asst. Surgeon and member of a Medical Examining Board, stationed in Tuscaloosa AL
12/05/1865 - As Asst. Surgeon, paid in Talladega, AL, for commutation of quarters while serving in Tuscaloosa, AL, from May15th to June 30th, 1864
03/27/1869 - "Dr. D. E. Bass, of Campbell Court House, assisted by Dr. G. W. Thornhill, performed the operation of lithotomy on the person of Mr. Henry Tweedy, of Campbell county, on Saturday last, and removed a stone from the bladder which measured six inches in circumference in one direction and five inches in the other. The operation was very skillfully performed by the Doctor and the patient has been doing finely ever since." [Source: National Republican, Washington D.C., April 1, 1869 - from the Lynchburg News]
07/16/1870 - Practiced medicine, Eastern Division, Campbell Co., VA (lived alone; indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as David E. Bass)
1874 - Practiced medicine, Campbell Co., VA
1874 - Member, Medical Society of Virginia
~1875 - Married, Sarah Judith "Sallie" Leftwich (1843-1922)
06/03/1880 - Practiced medicine, Lynchburg, Campbell Co., VA (lived with wife, Sallie, one daughter, and a brother-in-law ; indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as David E. Bass)
1886,1890 - Practiced medicine, Lynchburg, Campbell Co., VA
07/15/1891 - Attended a wedding with his daughter, Julia, in Elkton, Rockingham Co., VA.
11/13/1891 - Died of heart disease, Lynchburg, VA (buried: Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, VA)
08/25/1922 - Widow, Sarah, died in Wayne Co., NC (buried: Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, VA)

Francis Beckstrom Helmintoller, the creator of this memorial, and Jeffry Burden, 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.
07/25/2018. Updated 09/16/2022.
Unpublished database.