Father: Rev. Timothy J. Harrison
- Surgeon's Mate, U.S. Navy [studied medicine on his own and advanced to the point where he passed the U.S. Navy examination for the position of Asst. Surgeon]
03/03/1847 - Asst. Surgeon, U.S. Navy
1847-1848 - Asst. Surgeon, U.S. Navy, Mexican War
~1849 - Married, Amanda Gwynn (or Guinn)
1850 - Amanda lived with Elizabeth Guinn (?her mother) in a boarding house in Washington, DC. [Dr. Harrison might have been at sea.]
1852 - M.D. degree, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA (from VA before medical school)
1853 - Asst. Surgeon, U.S. Navy, Norfolk, VA [during the yellow fever scourge)
- Received a mark of recognition and esteem by the Corporation of Portsmouth [VA] for his role in the yellow fever epidemic
- Received a gold medal from the imperial government of France for distinguished services during the [Virginia]yellow fever epidemic
1855 - Wife, Amanda Gwynn Harrison, died of yellow fever in Norfolk, VA
1858 - Asst. Surgeon, U.S. Navy, on frigate Sabine, Paraguay War
1861 - Promoted to Surgeon, U.S. Navy
1863 - Surgeon, Confederate States Navy (C.S. Navy)
10/30/1863 - Surgeon, CSS Patrick Henry
- Served, Richmond [VA] station
00/00/1864 - Surgeon-in-charge, C.S. Naval Hospital, Richmond, VA
08/26/1864 - Surgeon, C.S. Navy, Richmond, VA
- Member, C.S. Navy Medical Examining Board
04/28/1865 - Paroled, Richmond, VA
1867 - Professor of medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1873 - Elected Chairman of the Faculty, University of Virginia
1874 - Practiced medicine, Charlottesville, VA
1886 - Severed his ties with the University of Virginia
- Vice president of the Virginia Medical Society
1886, 1890,1893 - Practiced medicine, Harrisonburgh, Rockingham Co, VA
01/17/1894 - Died at his home in Prince William Co., VA (buried: Naval Hospital Cemetery, Portsmouth, VA; in unmarked grave next to his wife, Amanda Gwynn Harrison; FindAGrave #83346359)

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
01/12/2012. Updated 12/20/2022.
Unpublished database.

Thanks to Donna Bluemink and
Terry Foenander for some of the information
in this biography