Father: Andrew William Burnet
Mother: Anne Burgh Smith
1850 - Lived, The Parishes of St. Philip & St. Michaels, District of Charleston, SC (lived with parents & maternal grandmother)
1861 - M.D. degree, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (from: Charleston, SC; preceptor: Dr. H. W. DeSaussure; thesis: "Aneurism"
12/17/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 9th SC Infantry
02/06/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 9th SC Infantry
02/06/1862 - Ordered to "report for examination to the [Confederate] Army Med Board now sitting in Charleston, SC, Monday the 10th inst at 11 o'clock A.M." by the A.A.G., Headquarters, 5th Military District, Camp Lee [near Grahamsville, SC]
02/18/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 9th SC Infantry
03/31/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 9th SC Infantry, Hardeeville, SC
04/17/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon from SC, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 02/10/1862
04/17/1862 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
04/21/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 11th SC Infantry [also called the 9th SC Infantry]
05/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 11th SC Infantry
06/04/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 11th SC Infantry
07/28/1862 - Acting as Surgeon-in-charge, Hospital, 10th SC Battalion Cavalry
09/01/1862 - Acting as Surgeon-in-charge, Hospital, 10th SC Battalion Cavalry
05/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 1st SC Battalion Sharpshooters, Coosawhatchie, SC [Dept. of South Carolina, Georgia, & Florida]
05/07/1863 - Leave granted [S.O. 102/1 Dept. SC-Ga-Fla Gen. Beauregard]
07/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 1st SC Battalion Sharpshooters, Battery White, SC [sometime in Sept, 1863, this unit became the 27th SC Infantry]
08/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Battery White, SC
09/10/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 1st SC Battalion Sharpshooters, Georgetown, SC
09/20/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 1st SC Battalion Sharpshooters [27th SC Infantry]
09/27/1863 - On leave in Camden, SC - requests additional leave - sick with "chronic dysentery"
09/30/1863 - Leave granted [S.O. 198/10 Dept. SC-Ga-Fla Gen. Beauregard]
10/15/1863 - Medical Director, R. L. Brodie submitted a request to Brig. Gen. Thomas Jordan that Dr. Burnet be "assigned temporarily to duty at Fort Sumter."
10/15/1863 - Ordered to report to Maj. Elliott [S.O. 211/2 Dept. SC-Ga-Fla Gen. Beauregard]
10/24/1863 - Ordered to report to Surgeon R. L. Brodie [S.O. 220/5 Dept. SC-Ga-Fla Gen. Beauregard]
10/25/1863 - Assigned to Batteries Pringle and Tynes [S.O. 221/12 Dept. SC-Ga-Fla Gen. Beauregard]
10/26/1863 - Medical Director, R. L. Brodie submitted a request to Brig. Gen. Thomas Jordan that Dr. Burnet "be assigned to duty at Batteries Pringle and Dill" [James Island, SC]
11/00/1863 - Requested to be assigned to Yates' Command on James Island, SC [probably Lt. Col. J. A. Yates, 1st SC Artillery]
11/10/1863 - Ordered to report to Maj. Blanding [S.O. 234/4 Dept. SC-Ga-Fla Gen. Beauregard]
11/11/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 15th SC Battalion, Heavy Artillery, Fort Pemberton, near Charleston, SC
11/24/1863 - Assigned to Col. Yates' Command [S.O. 248/10 Dept. SC-Ga-Fla Gen. Beauregard]
01/12/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Fort Johnson, James Island, SC
02/11/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 1st SC Artillery, Fort Johnson, James Island, SC
04/07/1864 - Leave [S.O. 97/5 Dept. SC-Ga-Fla Gen. Beauregard]
04/27/1864 - Asst. Medical Officer, 1st & 2nd SC Artillery, James Island, SC
05/14/1864 - Announced [S.O. 134/8 Dept. SC-Ga-Fla Gen. Sam Jones]
06/23/1864 - Assigned to the 2nd SC Cavalry [S.O. 166/3 Dept. SC-Ga-Fla Gen. Sam Jones]
07/25/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd SC Cavalry, Chisolmville, near Green Pond, SC
08/06/1864 - Ordered to report to the Medical Director for Assignment [S.O. 195/3 Dept. SC-Ga-Fla Gen. Sam Jones]
08/25/1864 - Applied for 6 days leave "to visit my home in Camden, SC"
11/02/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Sullivan's Station, SC
11/11/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 9th SC Infantry
12/23/1864 - Married, Harriet Shannon (she died in 1908)
1866 - Practiced medicine, Camden, Kershaw Co., SC
1880 - Practiced medicine, Kirkwood, Kershaw Co., SC (indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as Aw Burnett)
1886,1890,1893 - Practiced medicine, Camden, Kershaw Co., SC
06/01/1894 - Died at his father's home, Charleston, SC (cause: apoplexy)

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
10/19/2014. Unpublished database.