02/28/1834 - Born, Edgehill Plantation, near Columbia, Richland Co., SC
- Educated at Mount Zion Institute, Winnsboro, Fairfield Co., SC
09/20/1850 - Student, South Carolina College, Richland Co., SC (living with parents and sibs; indexed in the 1850 U. S. Census as Walter Taylor)
05/12/1852 - Father, Benjamin, died (buried: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, Richland Co., SC; FindAGrave #135514075)
1855 - Graduated, South Carolina College, Richland Co., SC (from: Richland Co., SC
1856-1857 - Attended, Medical College of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
1858 - M.D. degree, Medical College of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (preceptor: Dr. R. W Gibbes and the Philadelphia Medical Association; thesis: "On Diabetes")
07/12/1861 - Assumed the duty of Asst. Surgeon, Hampton Legion, SC Volunteers
11/30/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, Hampton Legion, SC Volunteers, Bacon Race Church, Woodbridge, VA
11/30/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, Hampton Legion, SC Volunteers, Camp Lee, VA
12/31/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, Hampton Legion, SC Volunteers
02/17/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States to rank from 06/12/1861
02/17/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, ordered to report to Hampton's Legion
08/13/1862 - In a letter written from Headquarters, Medical Dept. 1st Division, Army of the Potomac, camp near Hanover C. H., VA, to Hon. George W. Randolph, Secretary of War, Confederate States Army, "Sir, I recommend to your favorable consideration the appointment of Asst. Surgeon Taylor of Hampton Legion to the position of Surgeon. Asst. Surgeon B. W. Taylor has been fulfilling the duties of his position since the organization of the Legion to the entire satisfaction of the command, and as acting surgeon for several months, has increased his reputation. As former Surgeon of the Legion, I ever found in him an able, active, zealous and untiring coadjutor in discharging the arduous duties of medical
11/29/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, assigned to duty with 2nd SC Cavalry
01/05/1863 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States to rank from 11/27/1862
04/04/1863 - Confirmed as Surgeon from SC by the Confederate States Senate
12/07/1863 - Assigned to Hampton's Cavalry Division as Chief Surgeon
08/08/1864 - Chief Surgeon, Hampton's Cavalry Division
10/02/1864 - Surgeon, 1st Division Cavalry, Army of Northern Virginia
11/09/1864 - Medical Director, Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
03/08/1865 - Chief Surgeon, Wade Hampton's Command
12/14/1865 - Married, Marianna "Anna" Heyward (1844-1907), Richland District, SC
07/21/1870 - Practiced medicine, Columbia, Richland Co., SC (lived with wife, "Anah"; mother, Sarah, and one child; indexed in the 1870 U. S. Census as B. W. Taylor)
07/05/1877 - Member, Board Regents of the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, Columbia, SC
06/02/1880 - Practiced medicine, Columbia, Richland Co., SC (lived with wife, Anna H.; four sons and one daughter; indexed in the 1880 U. S. Census as Benjamin W. Taylor)
10/03/1887 - Mother, Sarah, died in Columbia, Richland Co., SC (buried: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, Richland Co., SC; FindAGrave #141788824)
09/13/1888 - President, Board of Regents of the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane
03/10/1892 - Re-elected, president, Board of Regents of the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane
06/08/1900 - Practiced medicine, Columbia, Richland Co., SC (lived with his wife, Anna H.; 3 sons, and two daughters; indexed in the 1900 U.S. Census as Benjamin W. Taylor)
12/27/1905 - Died "at his home in Columbia, December 27, from pneumonia, after an illness of six days", Richland Co., SC (buried: Elmwood Memorial Gardens, Columbia, SC; FindAGrave #63434844; obituary: 1906 Journal of the American Medical Association, v. 46, p. 208.)
12/05/1907 - Widow, Anna, died suddenly of a stoke of apoplexy in Columbia, Richland Co., SC buried: Elmwood Memorial Gardens, Columbia, SC; FindAGrave #99,59211)
Judy Wilson 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.
08/07/2023. Unpublished database.