Surgeon for the 1st Cherokee Mounted Volunteers, CSA.∼Father: George Washington Adair
Mother: Martha Patsy Martin
1854 - Graduated, Cherokee Male Seminary, Tahlequah, Indian Territory
1858 - M.D. degree, St. Louis Medical College, St. Louis, MO
08/23/1858 - Married, Mary Buffington Adair (1835-1867), Stilwell, Flint District, Cherokee Nation West, Indian Territory
12/04/1861 - Surgeon, Watie's Regiment Cherokee Mounted Volunteers (also known as 1st Regiment Cherokee Mounted Volunteers; as the 2nd Regiment Cherokee Mounted Rifles, Arkansas, and as the 1st Regiment Cherokee Mounted Rifles or Riflemen)
04/03/1862 - Father, George, died, Saline District, Cherokee Nation West, Indian Territory
04/15/1863 - Passed Confederate Army Board of Medical Examination for the position of surgeon
04/15/1863 - Assigned to duty as Surgeon, 2nd Cherokee Regt., 1st Indian Brigade, Indian Division, District of Indian Territory
04/16/1863 - Nominated as Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, by Jefferson Davis, President, Confederate States of America
04/16/1863 - Relieved Doctors White and Colley [probably Asst. Surgeon Robert White and Surgeon Thomas Milton Colley] as Surgeon, 2nd Cherokee Mounted Volunteers
06/00/1863 - Passed Confederate Army Board of Medical Examination, Ft. Smith, AR
06/30/1863 - Surgeon, 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles, Camp Steele [probably near Ft. Smith, AR]
11/00/1863 - Surgeon, 2nd Cherokee Regt., District of Indian Territory, Trans-Mississippi Dept., in the field
02/02/1864 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 04/16/1863
02/02/1864 - Confirmed as Surgeon from the Cherokee Nation by the Confederate States Senate
05/20/1864 - Signed letter to Gen. Stand Watie as "Brig. Surgeon"
07/27/1864 - Brigade Surgeon, First Indian Brigade, Gen. D. H. Cooper's Division, District of Indian Territory, Camp Kincaid, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
03/00/1865 - Chief Surgeon [or Post Surgeon], 1st Division (Gen. D. H. Cooper's), District of Indian Territory, Boggy Depot, Cherokee Nation
02/17/1867 - Death of wife, Mary, Flint District, Cherokee Nation West, Indian Territory
1867 - Medical Superintendent, Cherokee Male and Female Seminaries, Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation West, Indian Territory
04/00/1871 - Married, Ruth A. Markham (1853-1881), Markham's Prairie, Saline District, Cherokee Nation West, Indian Territory
01/24/1875 - Mother, Martha, died, Saline District, Cherokee Nation West, Indian Territory
06/01/1881 - Wife, Ruth, died, Salina, Mayes Co., OK
10/10/1882 - Married, Fannie Gray (1860-????)
1886 - Practiced medicine, Tahlequah, Indian Territory
1889 - Medical Superintendent, Cherokee Male and Female Seminaries, Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation West, Indian Territory
1890 - Practiced medicine, Salina, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
1893 - Practiced medicine, Pryor Creek, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
1896 - Practiced medicine, Salina, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
08/14/1899 - Died of heart failure at his home, Pryor Creek, Indian Territory [now Mayes Co., OK] 04/02/1901 - Third wife, Fannie, married Joseph Franklin Thompson

Note: Dr. Adair was the younger brother of Col. William Penn Adair, 2nd Cherokee Mounted Volunteers. His father was 1st Lt. George Washington Adair, Asst. Quartermaster, 1st Cherokee Mounted Volunteers.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
03/17/2016. Unpublished database.