Father: Col. Donald Rowe Barton
Mother: Elizabeth Ann Funchess
1850 - Student, Orangeburg C.H.,
Orangeburg, SC
04/27/1854 - Married, Cornelia Frances Izlar
(she died in 1917)
1856-1857 - Attended Jefferson Medical
College, Philadelphia, PA, but did not graduate
1858 - M.D. degree, Medical College of South
Carolina, Charleston, SC (from Bamberg, SC,
before medical school; preceptor: Dr. William Frederick)
1860 - Practiced medicine, Orangeburg C.H.,
Orangeburg Co, SC
12/21/1861 - Enlisted, Capt. P. A. McMichael's
Co. (E), 20th SC Infantry, Orangeburg, SC
04/00/1862 - 1st Sgt., 20th SC Infantry
06/00/1862 - 1st Lt., Co. B, 20th SC Infantry,
Sullivan's Island, SC
08/01/1862 - 1st Lt., Co. B, 20th SC Infantry,
Sullivan's Island, SC
12/01/1862 - 1st Lt., Co. B, 20th SC Infantry,
Sullivan's Island, SC
07/04/1863 - "Having received the
appointment of Assistant Surgeon",
Provisional Army of the Confederate States,
he tendered resignation as 1st Lt., Co B,
20th SC Infantry, Sullivan's Island, SC
07/10/1863 - As Asst. Surgeon, ordered to
report to Surgeon William C. Ravenel
07/14/1863 - "Will report to the Surgeon-General without delay for assignment to duty .. Assistant Surgeons … Donald W. Barton" [S.O. 166/8]
08/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 20th SC Infantry,
Sullivan's Island, SC
08/23/1863 - Granted leave as Asst. Surgeon,
Dept. of SC, GA, & FL
08/31/1863 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon,
Provisional Army of the Confederate States,
to rank from 06/30/1863
10/20/1863 - As Asst. Surgeon, 20th SC
Infantry, applied for leave of absence
"on account of ill health having suffered
for some time with haemorrhoids", Mt. Pleasant, SC
10/20/1863 - Leave granted [S.O. 214/2]
12/19/1863 - In a letter to Capt. Otey, A.A.G.,
sent from Headquarters, 20th SC Infantry,
"In consequence of the illness of my family,
I respectfully ask leave of absence for ten (10)
days. My family physician is also too sick
to attend."
12/28/1863 - In a letter to Capt. Otey, A.A.G.,
sent from Branchville, SC, "In consequence of
the continued sickness of my family I
respectfully ask leave of an extension
of leave of absence for five days"
12/29/1863 - Leave extended [S.O. 278/4]
01/30/1864 - Confirmed as an Asst. Surgeon
by the Confederate States Senate
01/31/1864 - Stationed, Mt. Pleasant, SC
02/29/1864 - Leave extended
03/31/1864 - Granted leave as Asst. Surgeon,
Dept. of SC, GA, & FL
05/07/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Sullivan's
Island, SC
08/06/1864 - Received as a patient, Receiving
and Wayside Hospital (Gen. Hosp. #9),
Richmond, VA and then sent to Jackson
Hospital, Richmond, VA
08/06/1864 - Patient, Jackson Hospital,
Richmond, VA (diagnosis #1: "varacocela",
probably, varicocele - a varicose dilatation
of the veins of the scrotum and spermatic
cord; diagnosis #2: "neuralgia orchitis"
- inflammation of the testicle with acute pain)
08/12/1864 - Patient, Jackson Hospital,
Richmond, VA
08/12/1864 - Granted 30 day furlough -
destination, Orangeburg, SC
10/28/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 20th SC Infantry
05/02/1865 - As Asst. Surgeon, 2nd SC
Infantry, paroled, Greensboro, NC
1877 - Practiced medicine, Orangeburg C.H.,
Orangeburg Co, SC
1880 - Practiced medicine, Zion, Orangeburg Co, SC
1886,1890 - Practiced medicine, Bamberg,
Barnwell Co, SC
1900 - Practiced medicine, Bamberg,
Bamberg Co, SC
01/20/1904 - "Died rather suddenly, Wednesday . . . about noonday"

Anna O'Quinn Richter and Robert Krick 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.
05/18/2013. Unpublished database