Father: Dr. Ephraim Thomas Lockwood (1810-1888)
Mother: Nancy Moriah Cottingham (1814-1886)]
09/03/1850 - Lived with parents, Copiah Co., MS (indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as Theodore P. Lockwood)
10/12/1860 - Lived with parents, Copiah Co., MS (indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as T. P. Lockwood)
1860-1861 - Attended 1st course of medical lectures, New Orleans School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
07/00/1861 - As 2nd Lt., "The Crystal Springs Guards", was "mustered in the service by Maj. McCardle of Vicksburg" while still in Crystal Springs, MS
07/31/1861 - Left Crystal Springs, MS, for a military camp in Grenada, MS
08/01/1861 - Reached camp in Grenada, MS
08/24/1861 - 2nd Lt., Crystal Springs Guards, Grenada, MS [Note: This company was successively designated as Capt. Lowe's Co., Capt. Lindsay's Co. and Co. F, 6th MS Infantry.]
00/00/1861 - Sent to Union City, TN, where measles "struck the Camp and numbers of soldiers were smitten and sent to the hospitals where they died like sheep"
09/25/1861 - Mustered-in as 2nd Lt., Capt. A. B. Lowe's Co., 6th MS Infantry, Gen. Patrick Cleburne's Brigade, Gen. J. C. Breckinridge's Division, Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, commanding the Army of Tennessee, Trenton, TN
00/00/1861 - "Regiment ordered to Bowling Green, Kentucky where we went into winter quarters. It was an exceedingly cold winter the snow lying on the ground, principally, all winter from a half foot to a foot and a half deep."
02/00/1862 - "Our command remained at Bowling Green, Ky., until the 'disasters of Fort Donelson and Mill Springs compelled Johnston to fall back from Bowling Green and establish a new line of defense, which extended from New Madrid, Mo., through Jackson, Tenn., to Murfreesboro.' In our retreat from Bowling Green the main army marched through the country and all the sick and disabled were sent around by [railroad] cars. I had a very bad case of Jaundice and suffered a good deal. . . . but Dr. Wm. Aills, who was Surgeon of the Regiment, refused the certificate [of disability] and forced me to march through with command, telling me it would be good for my complaint. So we fell back from Bowling Green, Ky., to Nashville, Tenn., through the country, in the winter when the march for most of the way was through snow over shoe mouth deep."
04/00/1862 - "From Nashville we went to Corinth, Miss, where we went into Camps and remained until everything was ready for the desperate battle of Shiloh."
04/06/1862 - "After standing all night in line of battle, by daylight on Sunday morning, (April 6) the firing began on our left and came rapidly down the line. The battle had begun and we rushed into the melee amidst the rattle of musketry. the deafening roar of cannon, and the hiss of shrieking shells. Gradually but stubbornly the enemy went back before the fury of our assault over fences and fields and hills and woods. In front of our regiment, (the 6th Miss.) the enemy had dug their trenches and thrown up breastworks, in rear of which was their Camps and a battery of six guns, which poured a deadly fire upon our advancing columns. Between our line and the enemies' breast works there ran a little creek or ravine in the skirt of the intervening woods close under the breastworks. The enemy's fire was so galling and was mowing down our advancing column so dreadfully that we were ordered to lie down, but the enemy behind the trenches had our range so completely, that our officers soon found that there were more men killed lying down than while advancing. While lying there, Lieutenant Harris of the Steel Blades in our regiment, and I, were lying close together, our shoulders touching, talking about how thick the bullets were coming, and watching our men before us as they were being shot. Lt. Harris playfully remarked, "I wish we could get right-down in the earth" then I noticed that he quit talking and I looked around to see what was the matter and Lt Harris lay stretched out, flat of his back, with a minnie ball in his head -- he was dead. At this juncture we were ordered to charge the breast works. We arose and with the historic Rebel Yell made a furious dash across the little creek and stormed the breastworks, killed and captured the soldiers in their trenches, silenced the battery of six cannons which had played such havoc in our ranks, captured the battery and the enemy camps and provisions, and sent the ruling foe flying before us. This was the gallant charge of the bloody 6th Miss. Regiment at Shiloh. But it cost us dearly. Every field officer of the regiment was shot down and many a noble, splendid boy of this community met a hero's death on this fearful, bloody field. Just before we reached the little creek in the woods, in that gallant charge, I was shot down with a fearful wound in my leg and foot [gun shot in right leg & foot], just as the charging regiment reached the little creek, the brave and gallant Lt Thomas H. Willis fell mortally wounded. . . .Finally two wounded soldiers coming back from the front found me and as they were not wounded so bad but that they could walk, took me and putting my arms around their necks bore me back a quarter of a mile to the rear to the Field Hospital. It was 4 o'clock in the evening and raining to beat the band. The field hospital was too crowded with the desperately wounded that I would not receive any more and they laid hundreds about on the ground outside, so I was laid by another old fallen tree."
04/07/1862 - "There I lay all night until 4 o'clock next evening in a drenching rain. It was an awful sight to see the stack of legs and arms and other parts of the human body that was piled up outside the field hospital almost as high and thick as an ordinary haystack. I was never reached for attention until 4 o'clock on the evening of the 7th where all the wounded that were able to travel at all were put in two mule wagons and sent back to Corinth, Miss. After traveling all night in drenching rain, over desperate roads, amid the cries and groans of the wounded soldiers, we reach Corinth early next morning where tents were provided for us"
04/08/1862 - "My wet blanket was laid down on the ground in one of those tents and I was layed down on it. My comrade and member of my company, Lt. Thomas H. Willis was layed by my side in the same tent mortally wounded where in a few hours he died, while I raised up on my elbow with m y hand on his dying breast, and gazing intently on his pale, waning face until his heroic spirit left forever the lionhearted soldier boy, and he lay still, calm, and serene in a soldier's death. I crossed his arms on his breast as best I could and covered his rigged, pale face with his old wet blanket as best I could, and was left alone I the tent with my dead comrade. Then I wept bitter tears over my gallant friend, thought of the beautiful wife and three lovely children he left behind and sighed a long farewell to
my life long friend Tom Willis."
04/00/1862 - "After the battle of Shiloh my father, Dr. E. T. Lockwood and Dr. Brown came up to Corinth to aid the wounds and attended to me in the tent, for the first time in two days and nights. My father brought me home, with the other wounded, who were able to be moved home. For many long, tedious weary months I lay, suspended by a hair, betwixt life and death. Frequently my wound would break out with severe hemmorhages [sic - hemorrhages], and almost bleed me to death, but the time was not yet. Other sore and trying experiences awaited me in the battle of life."
09/01/1862 - 1st Lt, Co F, 6th MS Infantry, at home - wounded
09/16/1862 - Brother, Johnathan Thomas Lockwood,16th MS Infantry, killed during the 2nd Battle of Manassas and buried in Warrenton, VA
10/13/1862 - Received a Certificate of Disability from Asst. Surgeon George Allen, City Hall Hospital, Jackson, MS, for "gun shot wound in calf of leg incapacitating him for military service"
10/25/1862 - In a letter written from Crystal Springs, MS, to Robert Lowery, Colonel commanding the 6th MS Infantry, "Dear Sir: Having received a severe wound at the battle of Shiloh through the calf of the right leg which renders me permanently unfit for Military Service because of rigid contraction of the muscles of the leg, elevating the heel and depressing the toe. And which incapacitates me from officiating as first Lieutenant, my present position in Company (F), 6th Regt. Miss Vols. I have waited for more than six months hoping to recover Sufficiently to return to duty but find there is no improvement, nor prospect of recovery. I therefore respectfully tender you this my resignation based on Surgeon's Certificate (which see) and ask to be honorably discharged from the service. Respectfully Submitted, T. P. Lockwood"
12/10/1862 - Resignation accepted
11/01/1863 - Absent, sick
06/00/1864 - "After about two years, I got partially able to rejoin my command at the battle of Kennesaw Mountain, still walking on my crutches. At the retreat of the Mountain battle, my General, Robert Lowery, seeing my condition, detailed me to take a train of wounded soldiers to the hospitals of Atlanta. With my train load of wounded soldiers, I found Atlanta overflowing with the wounded, every place that could be made a hospital crowded, even the ample railroad shed was literally covered with wounded men, so that one could scarcely step without treading on a soldier. I dropped with my train of wounded soldiers, to Griffin, Ga. where ample hospital facilities were provided for my charge. Here we stayed for some time, and I acted as druggist for the hospital. I was transferred to Thomaston, Ga., which was a Hospital Post with two large hospitals, one of the hospitals was in charge of a Surgeon from Florida. I have forgotten his name and the name of the hospital. He was a fine surgeon and a elegant gentleman. The other was a very large hospital called Lumpkin Hospital in charge of Dr. Alexander Hunter who also, was the Surgeon-in-chief of the entire Post and Commander of all the soldiers about 5000, for there were a great many at the Post. I remained Chief Druggist and manager of all medical supplies for the Post. Dr. Hunter was from Crystal Springs, Miss. He was my splendid and intimate friend, and a fine old gentleman.
11/00/1864 - "Lumpkin Hospital was ordered from Thomaston to Columbus, Miss. Here we stayed for quite awhile. I was here appointed Assistant Surgeon and put in charge of a ward in the hospital getting ready for the expected battle of Franklin, Tenn. After the battle the wounded began to pour into Columbus to the hospital. Wounded Confederates, wounded Yankees, wounded Negroes, and wounded foreigners from the slums and scums of Europe stalwart men - - and a motley crew. Many of them sick with pneumonia. The first night my ward alone, was crowded with 160 of these wounded. It was long after midnight before I got my ward settled down. Next morning when I went to the ward there were 80 of the wounded and sick dead in the ward, and the remainder in a critical and pitiful case!"
04/07/1865 - "Our hospital - - the Lumpkin - - was ordered back to Forsythe, Ga in wake of Sherman's incidiary [sic - incendiary] but famous 'March to the Sea.' Here, not long, the news reached us that Lee had surrendered to Grant at Appomattox. One of the grand scenes, ever enacted on the stage of warfare. Lee, surrounded by his dedicated ranks, of soldiery, footsore and weary; ragged; and hungry; vanquished; but not conquered stood like a Roman Soldier, proud, Erect, and undaunted, or like some ancient ruin towering amongst us, grand, noble, and magnificent. With serene and matchless dignity delivering his trusty sword to the victor, - - General Grant - - a soldier worthy of his steel - - and a brave, generous, and magnanimous foe, with a million of brave soldiers about him."
~04/09/1865 - "A few days after the news of Lee's surrender at Appomattox, where the brilliant star of Southern Confederacy set to rise no more, the Surgeon in Chief of our hospital asked me if I would like to go home? I said, 'Yes, Doctor, most assuredly.' He said, 'It is a long ways from her to our home. It will probably be six months before we can get there by rail road, the country is so torn up and devastated. I shall have to stay here at least that long. I have a two mule wagon and some relics I should like to send home. I will rig up the team and valuables, detail two men to go with you, if you are willing to undertake the trip across the country. It is a difficult and dangerous journey.' I said, "Good enough; I am willing to brave any danger, or privation to get home now.' Next morning we turned our mules' heads toward Crystal Springs, Miss. Our route lay along the mountainous portion of North Alabama. We passed through this country about where Birmingham now is. There was not a town or sign of civilization where the City of Birmingham now blooms out in all its magic beauty. We heard daily many scary reports of thieves, robbers, scouts, marauders, jayhawkers, Federal cavalry, and the like all along our way, but we never encountered any trouble. Soon after we crossed the Alabama line, one of my detailed men left me and went to his home near by, just before we got to the Mississippi Line. My other detail skipped me and went to his home. This left me alone the balance of my journey home. I got to Gainesville Alabama, got my Parole from Gen's Danby, and continued my way homeward. No incident, or happening molested me the end of my long trip. When I got home I was appalled at the ruin that greeted me. The old house where I was born, and lived, and left for the war was desolate. No one there but my Father and Mother eking out a scant existence. The old farm deserted; hoses dilapidated; fences all destroyed and gone; Horses and mules all taken away by raiding Federal cavalry; a scene of rapine and distraction. The Federal marauders stripped my Father's house of everything, went to every room hunting money, valuables, and spoils. On one of these raids, they camped 1500 or 2000 strong in the grove in front of my Father's house, there was no one there but my mother. They looted the house, pantry, and corn crib. They went from room to room, even turning up beds and bed clothes, in search of booty. The house was full of federal soldiers. My mother -- all alone, followed them where ever they went abusing and demeaning them. One heartless soldier, turned up her bed, in her presence, to search it. My mother said to him, 'You dirty, cowardly puppy, are you not ashamed to desecrate a lady's bed chamber and ruthlessly handle her bed?' He replied, 'All things are fair in war, madam.' I am told he said, 'You have a son with money and jewels.' She said, "Yes, I have but -- he is where you cannot get him.' 'Where is that?', he asked. 'At the front were the battle is, where you ought to be, instead of being far away from the firing-line, pilfering and searching a ladies sleeping apartments like a thief."
05/04/1865 - Surrendered by Lt. Gen. R. Taylor to the U.S. Army, Citronelle, AL
05/12/1865 - Paroled by the U. S. Army, Meridian, MS
1865 - Farmer, Crystal Springs, Copiah Co., MS
1866 - M.D. degree, New Orleans School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA (Valedictorian of his class)
1867 - Editor, Copiahan, a prominent paper in Copiah Co., MS
11/23/1869 - Married, Olivia Emma Patton (1849-1934), Crystal Springs, MS
08/20/1870 - Practiced medicine, Crystal Springs, Copiah Co., MS (lived with wife, "Olevia M." - indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as Theodore Lockwood)
1872 - Unsuccessful candidate to the Mississippi State House of Delegates
1874 - Practiced medicine with his father, Ephraim Thomas Lookwood, Crystal Springs, Copiah Co., MS
1877 - Delegate to the American Medical Association meeting, Chicago, IL
1880 - Practiced medicine, Crystal Springs, Copiah Co., MS
1886 - Practiced medicine with his father, Ephraim Thomas Lockwood, Crystal Springs, Copiah Co., MS
09/07/1886 - Mother, Nancy, died
08/05/1888 - Father, Ephraim, died in Crystal Springs, Copiah Co., MS
1890 - Practiced medicine, Crystal Springs, Copiah Co., MS
06/08/1900 - Practiced medicine, Crystal Springs Village, Copiah Co., MS (lived with wife, O. E., one daughter, and one son - indexed in the 1900 U.S. Census as T. Lockwood)
04/22/1910 - Practiced medicine, Crystal Springs, Copiah Co., MS (lived with wife, Olivia E. - indexed in the 1910 U.S. Census as Theodore P. Lockwood)
- Master Mason and medical examiner for the Crystal Springs Lodge, Knights of Honor, No. 1,420
- Medical examiner, New York Life Insurance Co.
- Medical examiner, Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. Philadelphia, PA
- Local surgeon, Illinois Central Railroad Co.
- Member, Copiah County Medical Association, Copiah Co., MS
- Vice president, Mississippi Medical Association
- Associate editor, Southern Medical Record
04/13/1915 - Died at his home of senile dementia, Crystal Springs, Copiah Co., MS (buried: Crystal Springs Cemetery, Crystal Springs, MS)
10/16/1916 - Widow, Olivia, applied for and received a Confederate Pension, Jefferson Co., AL
1917 - Widow, O. Emma Lockwood, lived at 1219 11th Ave, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL
12/00/1923 - Widow, Olivia Emma Lockwood, left the state of Alabama on a visit to Mississippi and her Alabama Confederate Pension was terminated
08/00/1924 - Widow, Olivia, returned to the state of Alabama
04/26/1928 - Reapplied for and was granted a re-instatement of her previous Alabama Confederate Pension
02/04/1932 - Widow, Mrs. T. P. Lockwood, lived in Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL
12/27/1934 - Widow, Olivia Emma Patton Lockhart, died, Birmingham, Jefferson Co., AL (buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, AL)

Note: Quotations by Dr. Theodore Prentiss Lockwood are from, "My War Record"
which he wrote in 1909. This manuscript was not published, but a copy is in: The Lockwood Collection (MUM00274), The University of Mississippi, J.D. Williams Library, Department of Archives and Special Collections, University, MS

Input to this biography was provided by Natalie Maynor.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
06/02/2012. Updated 01/29/2018.
Unpublished database.

The following was added by David Seaney and William DeCoursey:

Son of Dr. Ephraim Thomas Lockwood (b. 1810 in Dills Bottom, Ohio) and Nancy Marie Cottingham (b. 1816 near Savannah, Georgia), he married Olivia Emma Patton on 23 November 1869, and they three children: Benson Mott Lockwood, b. 12 September 1870; William Byron Lockwood, b. 30 December 1873; Genevieve Lockwood, b. October 1882, m. Lois H. Dent. [Biographical information provided by David Seaney and William DeCoursey.]