Father: William Nathaniel Craighill (1808-1887)
Mother: Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Brown (1812-1887)
09/05/1860 - Student, Charles Town, Jefferson Co., VA (living with parents)
1861 - M.D. degree, University of Pennsylvania Medical Department, Philadelphia, PA (from: VA; thesis: "Yellow Fever")
04/22/1861- Enlisted as Pvt., Co. G (Botts Greys), 2nd VA Infantry, Harper's Ferry, VA
05/11/1861 - Mustered into service, Pvt. Co. G, 2nd VA Infantry, Harper's Ferry, VA
06/25/1861 - Detailed as Hospital Steward, Gen. Hospital, Winchester, VA
06/27/1861 - Detailed by Surgeon Hunter McGuire as "Steward to the Hospital of the 1st Brigade, 2nd Corps . . . Genl. [T. J.] Jackson, Comd. approving"
08/00/1861 - "On special duty in Medical Dept."
08/18/1861 - Patient, Gen. Hospital, Pringle's House, Manassas, VA
08/20/1861 - Discharged from Gen. Hospital, Pringle's House, Manassas, VA
09/19/1861 - Detailed as Acting Hospital Steward by Gen. J. E. Johnston, Camp Pickens, Manassas, VA
10/01/1861 - Acting Hospital Steward, Camp Pickens, Manassas, VA
11/16/1861 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 11/15/1861
11/23/1861 - Assigned to duty with the Army of the Potomac. "He will report to duty to Surgeon Thomas H. Williams by command of the Secretary of War."
12/12/1861 - Assigned to temporary duty with the 23rd NC State Troops
12/22/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 23rd NC State Troops
12/22/1861 - Left camp, sick
01/02/1862 - Col. J. F. Hoke, 23rd NC State Troops wrote to Dr. T.H. Williams, Medical Director, Army of the Potomac, "Sir, Dr. [Robert Iverson] Hicks received a letter from [a] brother of Asst. Surgeon Craighill stating that he has typhoid fever. It is therefore probable that he will be unable to resume the duty of his post in several weeks. I wish therefore [to be] served by another if
practicable at your soonest convenience."
01/02/1862 - John H. H. Straith, M.D., Charles Town [VA] wrote to Dr. T. H. Williams, Medical Director, Army of the Potomac, "Dear Sir, I deem a duty to inform you that on Tuesday the 24th last, Dr. Ed. A. Craighill, Asst. Surg, C. S. A. arrived at his Father's in this town & immediately came under my professional care very sick with Typhoid fever. He has been ill, but for the last two days his condition has promised more favourably, & I now hope he will recover & be in due time restored to health. Some time, at the best to be expected, to fit him up again for the discharge of the responsible duties of his position, but I hope the misfortune of the attack will not lessen or
deprive him of any of the privileges bestowed upon him. I am, with highest regards your etc."
01/06/1862 - "Very ill" [On a Confederate Compiled Service file card in Dr. Craighill's record, no source given]
03/16/1862 - Relieved from duty with the 23rd NC State Troops and assigned as Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Gordonsville, VA, by command of Gen. J. E. Johnston [S. O. 158]
04/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Receiving Hospital, Gordonsville, VA
04/23/1862 - "You will direct Asst. Surgeon Ed A Craighill to remain at Gordonsville until further orders from this office to receive and forward the sick from Gen. [T. J.] Jackson's & [Gen. R. S.] Ewell's commands" [Order from
Medical Director's Office]
06/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Receiving Hospital, Gordonsville, VA
07/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Receiving Hospital, Gordonsville, VA
08/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Receiving Hospital, Gordonsville, VA
10/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Receiving Hospital, Gordonsville, VA
11/16/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Receiving Hospital [also known as Charity Hospital], Gordonsville, VA
12/11/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon-in-charge, Gen. Hospital, Gordonsville, VA [signed a receipt for 4 boxes gelatins & 8 dozen eggs "necessary for the use of the sick under my charges. E. A. Craighill Asst Surg In Charge Hospital Gordonsville, Va"
01/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Receiving Hospital, Gordonsville, VA
05/20/1863 - Relieved from duty at Gen. Hospital Gordonsville and ordered to report to Senior Surgeon W. O. Owen, Lynchburg, VA, to relieve Asst. Surgeon A.
P. Collins. By order of Wm. A. Carrington, Med. Director
[S.O. 53 Medical Director's Office]
06/04/1863 - Assigned to Gen. Hospital No. 3, Lynchburg, VA [S.O. 32 Senior Surgeon's Office]
06/06/1863 - Reported for duty to "Surgeon Thomas H. Fisher, Gen. Hospital No. 3, Lynchburg, Va, in obedience to S.O. 32, Senior Surgeon's Office, Lynchburg, Va, June 4th, 1863, said order not having been received until to day. I am, sir Very Respectfully Your Obt. Servant Edward A. Craighill Asst. Surgeon P.A.C.S."
06/24/1863 - Granted 15 days leave [S. O. 150/9]
07/16/1863 - Returned from leave of absence granted by the Secretary of War
08/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 3, Lynchburg, VA
09/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 3, Lynchburg, VA
11/18/1863 - Asst. Surgeon-in-chg., Gen. Hospital No. 3, Division 1, Lynchburg, VA
01/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 3, Lynchburg, VA
03/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 3, Lynchburg, VA
05/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 3, Lynchburg, VA
06/06/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 3, Lynchburg, VA
06/15/1864 - Temporarily relieved from duty as Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 3, Lynchburg, VA, and ordered by Senior Surgeon [William Otway] Owen to report for duty in the City defenses
07/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 3, Lynchburg, VA
09/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 3, Lynchburg, VA
10/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 3, Lynchburg, VA
12/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 3, Lynchburg, VA
01/00/1865 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 3, Lynchburg, VA
02/27/1865 - Ordered to report to Gen. Hospital No. 2, Lynchburg, VA [S.O. 20/1 Senior Surgeon's Office]
03/00/1865 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 2, Lynchburg, VA
04/15/1865 - Paroled by the U.S. Army, Lynchburg, VA
06/18/1870 - Practiced medicine, Lynch Ward, City of Lynchburg, Campbell Co., VA
04/14/1874 - Married, Martha Ann "Mattie" Hobson, Richmond, VA (she died in 1948)
06/01/1880 - Druggist, Lynchburg, Campbell Co., VA (living with wife - no children)
09/06/1887 - Father, Nathaniel, died
09/28/1887 - Mother, Sallie, died
1890 - Practiced medicine, Lynchburg, VA
07/19/1892 - Issued U.S. Patent #21,492 entitled, "Veterinary remedies, including
condition-powders for horses and cattle"
1893 - Retired from the firm, E. A. Craighill &Co, bearing his name, J. B. S. McIntosh taking his place
06/05/1900 - Druggist, 1st Ward, Lynchburg, Campbell Co., VA (living with wife, Mattie)
04/15/1910 - Druggist in a retail drug store, Lynchburg, Campbell Co., VA (living with wife, Mattie H. - indexed in the 1910 U.S. Census as "D Edward A Craghill")
01/17/1920 - "Retired doctor", Lynchburg, Campbell Co., VA (living with his wife, Mattie
- Director, First National Bank, Lynchburg, VA
- Director, Virginian Publishing Co., Lynchburg, VA
- Member, Executive Committee, Lynchburg Industrial Society
- Member, Medical Society of Virginia
- President, Virginia Pharmaceutical Society
- President, Lynchburg [VA] City Council
01/02/1923 - Died of "senility", Lynchburg, Campbell Co., VA

Rebecca Evans 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.
05/04/2015. Unpublished database.

For further reading:

Houck, Peter W. [1989] Confederate Surgeon: The Personal Recollections of E. A. Craighill.
H. E. Howard, Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia