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Dr James Dickson Smith

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Dr James Dickson Smith

Birth
Hancock County, Georgia, USA
Death
20 May 1894 (aged 69–70)
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA
Burial
Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, USA Add to Map
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Father: Lemuel Lee Smith
Mother: Mary Polly Dickson)
1842 - M.D. degree, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA (from GA)
04/17/1856 - Married, Caroline Virginia Ross
06/01/1862 - Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
06/19/1862 - Ordered to report to
Maj. Gen. T. J. Jackson, commanding,
Valley District, Confederate States Army
07/31/1862 - Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry
05/14/1863 - Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry,
1st VA Brigade, Johnson's Div.,
Jackson's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
06/02/1863 - Resignation accepted as
Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry
08/16/1863 - Appointed Surgeon
from GA (after he resigned), by the C.S.
Senate to rank from 05/23/1862
1874 - Practiced medicine, Rome, GA
1880 - "Retired physician", Atlanta, GA
1886 - Practiced medicine, 157 W. 23rd St.
New York City, NY
1890 - Practiced medicine, Atlanta, GA
1890 - Worked for the Swift Specific Co., a patent medicine maker, Atlanta, GA

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
04/05/2012. Unpublished database.
Father: Lemuel Lee Smith
Mother: Mary Polly Dickson)
1842 - M.D. degree, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA (from GA)
04/17/1856 - Married, Caroline Virginia Ross
06/01/1862 - Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
06/19/1862 - Ordered to report to
Maj. Gen. T. J. Jackson, commanding,
Valley District, Confederate States Army
07/31/1862 - Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry
05/14/1863 - Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry,
1st VA Brigade, Johnson's Div.,
Jackson's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
06/02/1863 - Resignation accepted as
Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry
08/16/1863 - Appointed Surgeon
from GA (after he resigned), by the C.S.
Senate to rank from 05/23/1862
1874 - Practiced medicine, Rome, GA
1880 - "Retired physician", Atlanta, GA
1886 - Practiced medicine, 157 W. 23rd St.
New York City, NY
1890 - Practiced medicine, Atlanta, GA
1890 - Worked for the Swift Specific Co., a patent medicine maker, Atlanta, GA

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
04/05/2012. Unpublished database.


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