Father: Judge John "Jack" Gaddis
Mother: Elizabeth Hillman Lloyd
10/21/1850 - Farmer, Coosa District, Coosa Co., AL (living with his parents - indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as Thomas Gaddis)
1859 - M.D. degree, Medical Department of the University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA (from: MS)
01/24/1862 - Passed Confederate Army Board of Medical Examination for the position of Asst. Surgeon, Richmond, VA [Surgeon Robert Southgate, President of A.B.M.E.]
02/05/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 01/24/1862
02/05/1862 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon from VA by the Confederate States Senate
02/28/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, stationed in Richmond, VA
03/01/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd Alabama Hospital, Richmond, VA
03/01/1862 - On a receipt for pay, "I hereby certify that I accepted my commission and reported for duty 24 Jany 1862, Thos Gaddis, Asst Surgeon"
03/10/1862 - "The following medical officers are relieved from hospital duty in this city, and will without delay report to Surgeon A. J. Foard for duty at Corinth, Miss.: assistant Surgeons F. L. Parker, M. J. Bolan [Boland,] Thomas Gaddis, and W. D. Somers." [S.O. 55/17]
04/17/1862 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon from VA by the Confederate States Senate [repeat of the 02/05/1862 confirmation]
05/23/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Oxford, MS
01/22/1863 - "Surgeon" 4th MS Cavalry, Okolona, MS
01/31/1863 - "Surgeon", 4th MS Cavalry
04/30/1863 - Serving with the 4th MS Cavalry
07/31/1863 - As Acting Surgeon, 4th MS Cavalry, submitted a requisition for medical supplies for the 2nd MS Cavalry, Brandon, MS
11/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 4th MS Cavalry - "reports to Gen. Pillow"
01/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 4th MS Cavalry, Gen. Adams' Brigade, Gen. Jackson's Division
04/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd MS Cavalry, Gen. Adams' Brigade, Gen. Jackson's Division, Maj. Gen. S. D. Lee's Cavalry Command, near Carthage, AL
06/30/1864 - "Surgeon", 2nd MS Cavalry
08/01/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd MS Cavalry, Gen. F. C. Armstrong's Brigade, in the field
08/19/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd MS Cavalry, Atlanta, GA
08/26/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd MS Cavalry, Gen. F. C. Armstrong's Brigade, near Atlanta, GA
10/01/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd MS Cavalry
10/02/1864 - Asst. Surgeon-in-charge, Armstrong's Brigade Infirmary, in the field
11/14/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd MS Cavalry, Gen. Jackson's Cavalry Division, Florence, AL
05/04/1865 - Surrendered to the U. S. Army, Citronelle, AL
05/16/1865 - Paroled by the U. S. Army, Columbus, MS
07/18/1868 - Father, John, died
07/04/1870 - Practiced medicine, Greenville, Washington Co., MS
12/21/1871 - Mother, Elizabeth, died
1877 - Practiced medicine, Greenville, Washington Co., MS (indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as Thomas Gaddis)
09/28/1878 - Seriously ill with yellow fever, Washington Co., MS
00/00/1878 - Died at his residence, Washington Co., MS, of yellow fever (Dr. Albinus Gerdine developed yellow fever while attending Dr. Gaddis and was unable to return to his home. His remains were interred in the grounds of Dr. Gaddis who subsequently died of the same disease. Dr. Gaddis is now buried in Greenville Cemetery, Greenville, Washington Co., MS, and Dr. Gerdine is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, West Point, Clay Co., MS)

Note: A chapter of the Accepted and Free Masons in
Washington Co., MS, is named the "Thomas Gaddis Lodge" after Dr. Gaddis.

Portia Solomon, the creator of this memorial and Bob 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.
08/05/2015. Unpublished database.