12/07/1835 - Born Lowndes Co, MS [Father: James H. Gilmore (1802-); Mother: Harriet C. Masey (1811SC-1858)]
09/23/1850 - Lived with parents and sibs, Noxubee Co., MS (indexed in the 1850 U. S. Census as "Taylor Gilmer")
1856 - A.B. degree, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (from: Noxubee Co., MS)
1856-1857 - Attended, The University of the City of New York, New York, NY
1857-1858 - Attended, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
1858 - M.D. degree, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA (from: Crawfordsville, Lowndes Co., MS; preceptors: Dr. Thomas and Dr. Donaghue; thesis: "Stricture of the Urethra")
12/27/1858 - Mother, Harriett, died (buried: Prairie Grove Cemetery, Noxubee County, MS; FindaGrave #132602710)
08/10/1860 - Practiced medicine, Noxubee Co, MS (lived father and sibs; indexed in the 1860 U. S. Census as "J. T. Gilmer")
06/04/1861 - Appointed Surgeon, from MS
06/04/1861 - Ordered to report to the 13th MS Infantry
07/31/1861 - As Surgeon, 13th MS Infantry, Manassas Junction, VA, submitted the following: "Report of the Surgeon 13th Regt. Miss Vols for the month of July, 1861 - Sir, as we moved so often in the month of July, it is impossible to give a correct report. Also, the Surgeon being Sick, a position of the time; and the Asst. Surgeon left at Union City, Tenn to attend to the Sick - consequently no Surgeon being with the Regt. he had to attach physicians from the ranks and they kept no report. At Union City Tenn Typhoid fever made its appearance and raged as an Epidemic; at that place we left about thirty - at Corinth Miss we left twenty - at Chattanooga Tenn we left fifteen - at Bristol Six- at Lynchburg Va fifty. We landed at Manassas on the night of the 20d July and rushed into battle on the next morning - during this time Rubeola [Measles] made its appearance. On the day after the Battle, about thirty of our men broke out with Rubeola - they were sent to Charlottesville to the Hospital - afterwards we sent Twenty more and thirty to Culpepper C. H. for treatment. At Stone Bridge we had about one hundred taken. We had Seven wounded in the Battle at Bull Run, all doing well. The number that died amounts to Twenty one -Discharged from service fifteen. At the end of July the number unable for duty in quarters amounted to four Hundred & fifty. Those in different Hospitals - Two Hundred and Twenty Eight. Sum total Six Hundred & Seventy Eight. The disease[s] was [sic- were] Typhoid fever Rubeola & Dystentary [sic] that prevailed mostly. This Sir was the condition of our Regt. at the end of July. J. T. Gilmore, Surgeon, 13th Miss Vols. Pvt. G. W. Broach, Secretary"
08/31/1861 - Surgeon, 13th MS Infantry, 7th Brigade, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac, Leesburg, VA
09/19/1861 - Surgeon, 13th MS Infantry, Manassas Junction, VA
10/23/1861 - Surgeon, 13th MS Infantry, 7th Brigade, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac, Manassas Junction, VA
11/00/1861 - Surgeon, staff of Gen R. Griffith
01/00/1862 - Surgeon, staff of Gen W. Barksdale
01/00/1862 - In a letter written from Leesburg, VA, to Thomas H. Williams, Medical Director, Army of the Potomac, "Sir, I am in receipt of yours containing orders for Surgeons [A. R.] Mott and [A.G.] Lane to report to your office for duty. In consequence of the absence of two of our Surgeons I think it better to retain Dr. Lane at least until these gentlemen return. Dr. Mott, being a resident practicing physician of this place [Leesburg, VA], his private practice was detrimental to the public Service here. I insist upon your order being carried out." I am Sir, Verry [sic] Respectfully, Your obt Servant, [signed] J. T. Gilmore, Senior Surgeon, 7th Brigade"
01/09/1862 - Senior Surgeon, 7th Brigade, Post Hospital, Leesburg, VA
01/17/1862 - Senior Surgeon, 7th Brigade, Gen R. Griffith's Command
06/10/1862 - Senior Surgeon, 3rd Brigade, Gen R. Griffth's Command
06/29/1862 - Senior Surgeon, Gen P. J. Semmes (3rd) Brigade [Note: Gen. Griffith was mortally wounded on this day and died in the evening.]
07/02/1862 - Surgeon, staff of Gen B. G. Humphreys
07/29/1862 - Acting Surgeon, Division Hospital, Gen L. McLaw's Command
09/09/1862 - Chief Surgeon, Gen. L. McLaw's Division
04/04/1863 - Confirmed as Surgeon from MS by the Confederate States Senate
05/00/1863 - "The following case was reported by Dr. J. T. Gilmore, of Mobile, Alabama, formerly Surgeon, C. S. A., and chief surgeon of the Division of General McLaws, in General Longstreet's Corps. Dr. Gilmore's experience of field surgery in the late was great, and this Office is under many obligations to him for careful and conscientious reports of his observations - A Confederate soldier of Kershaw's South Carolina Brigade, was wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3, 1863, by a musket ball which shattered the neck of the femur. It having been decided, after an examination of the would under chloroform, that the case was a favorable one for the operation of excision [of the neck and head of the femur], the important nerves and vessels being intact, and the injury limited mainly to the neck of the bone, the operation was performed by Surgeon James, 16th South Carolina Regiment [probably Surgeon Joseph Alston James] on the day after the reception of the wound. The patient sank from the shock of the injury and operation and died, May 6th, 1863." [source: A Report on Excisions of the Head of the Femur for Gunshot Injury. War Department, U. S. Surgeon General's Office, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1869, p. 24.]
01/25/1864 - Served on Army Board of Medical Examination, Gen J. Longstreet's Headquarters
04/00/1864 - Chief Surgeon, Gen L. McLaw's Division, Gen J. Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia (ANV)
08/18/1864 - Chief Surgeon, Gen J. B. Kershaw's Division
10/10/1864 - Relieved from duty with ANV due to ill health. Ordered to report to Medical Director Kinloch, Charleston, SC
03/01/1865 - In a letter written from the 3rd SC Hospital, Greenville, SC, to Surgeon Oze Roscoe Horton through Surgeon A. S. Crowell, Medical Director of General Hospitals, Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, Raleigh, NC, "Sir, It being impossible for you to communicate with the Medical Director of Hospitals of this department, at this time, you will proceed at once to assist in organizing a Hospital at the Mansion House in this place [Greenville, SC] for the accommodation of the large number of sick that have been thrown upon our hands, and for whom there is no Hospital accommodations.[signed] J. T. Gilmore, Surgeon in charge."
03/30/1865 - Surgeon-in-charge, 3rd South Carolina Hospital, Greenville, SC
07/26/1865 - Married, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Jane Brown (1840AL-1908)
03/06/1868 - Member, Mobile Medical Society, Mobile, AL
04/17/1867 - Father, James H., died in St. Landry Parish, LA (buried: Prairie Grove Cemetery, Noxubee County, MS; FindaGrave #242720977)
08/24/1869 - Professor of Anatomy, Medical College of Alabama, Mobile, AL
06/14/1870 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL (lived with wife, Lizzie, and two children; indexed in the 1870 U. S. Census as J. T. Gilmore)
1870 - In Mobile, AL, served as a preceptor for W. G. England before the latter received his M.D. degree from the Medical College of Alabama
03/24/1872 - As an appointed delegate, attended the meeting of the Medical Association of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
10/16/1872 - "Following the close of the war, Dr. J. T. Gilmore, of Mobile became very much interested in calculosis. The following letter received by him shows the ingenuity of our rugged pioneers during the time immediately following the removal of the Indians: DeKalb, Kemper Co., Miss. October 16, 1872, Dr. J. T. Gilmore, Mobile, Ala. Dear Doctor: My friend, Dr. Campbell, of this county, says that on a recent visit to Mobile you expressed a desire that I should send you the particulars of an operation for stone in the bladder that occurred in this neighborhood years ago. The facts and circumstances are these: An old man named Buck Craig, aged about sixty years, lived in this county in the year 1840. He had some sort of trouble with his urinary organs - slight stricture of the urethra, perhaps - and being a sort of steam doctor, and having read some, he dipped a straw in wax, making a rude catheter, which he introduced into the bladder, and on withdrawing it left part of the wax in the bladder, which became the nucleus for a calculus. In the course of a few months it became so large as to give him great pain, and he determined to operate for it. Under his direction, his wife, with a common case knife, ground into the form of a scalpel, cut into the urethra in the perineum, and successfully extracted the stone, which must have weighed at least two ounces. I saw the stone myself lying on the head of a flour barrel. It seems that there were no persons present except his own family. They all said at the time that their mother did it. No surgeon ever claimed the credit of it, and it was done. My father-in-law, Mr. Hughes, lived within a mile of him, and saw him every day until he recovered and moved off. Mr. Murdoc McRae, W. C. Rush and several other old citizens, now living in this neighborhood, told me last Sunday, after receiving your message by Dr. Campbell, that they saw him frequently after the operation. I was a lad of fifteen in those days, but I distinctly recollect seeing the stone and hearing the matter discussed by his neighbors, and it was generally conceded by everybody that his wife did it. There were three physicians living here, one of whom (Dr. McLanahan) is still here, and none of them ever claimed credit of it. Nor did any one else, except his wife. These are the facts, and there is no doubt in my mind but that his wife performed the operation with nothing but a case knife. I am, Doctor, Respectfully, (signed) E. Fox." (Letter written to Dr. John Taylor Gilmore by E. Fox, DeKalb, MS, October 16, 1872, about urinary tract surgery in about 1840 in: The Journal of The Medical Association of the State of Alabama, Feb. 1940, vol. 9, p. 262)
07/02/1873 - Professor of Surgeon, Medical College of Alabama, Mobile, AL
1874 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co, AL
09/19/1875 - Died of consumption, at the home of his father-in-law's, Jackson, Madison Co., TN, (buried: Riverside Cemetery, Madison Co, TN; FindAGrave #112063690; Lot 266)
09/26/1875 - "Letter from Mobile, AL - Dr. Gilmore deserves more than this passing notice. Coming here [Mobile, AL] an entire stranger, shortly after the war, he rose rapidly in his profession, obtaining almost at once an extensive practice. He was particularly distinguished as a skillful surgeon, and his services were in constant requisition. He was a man of marked character - independent, defiant, strong in his friendships and his antipathies, but withal a man of true goodness. For several years he had been physician to the Providence Infirmary in charge of the Sisters of Charity, and it was doubtless his daily intercourse with the good Sisters that led him to weigh the claims of a Faith which alone produces these angels of goodness, for it was well known that a long time before his death he had become thoroughly Catholic at heart. Last Spring, when he felt the insidious approach of consumption, he went to Florida, and her grateful climate improved him so much that he wrote to a friend here that he hoped yet 'to cheat Father Brown out of a job.' A few weeks ago he sent for Father Brown to stand sponsor at his baptism. Of course he obeyed the summons, and had the satisfaction to see the Doctor received into the Church and make his first communion. He received the last sacraments and died a beautiful and edifying death. May he rest in peace. Under the Influence of bracing air which has succeeded the storm, business seems to be reviving, and the busy notes of preparation for the commercial campaign are heard on every side. The signs are hopeful of, a good season, and our clerks, mechanics and artisans will soon be so busy that they will have no spirit for the base ball encounter, even on Sunday. THEMIS (The Morning Star and Catholic Messenger, New Orleans, LA, 09/16/1875, p. 3, c. 1)
06/11/1900 - Widow, "Liza J.", lived with son, Milton B., Madison Co. TN
09/08/1908 - Widow, Jane, died, (buried: Riverside Cemetery, Madison Co, TN; FindAGrave #138698254)
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This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
08/17/2008. Updated 01/30//2024.
Unpublished database.