Father: John Berkley Grimball
Mother: Margaret Ann "Meta" Morris
08/20/1850 - Lived with parents and sibs in the Parishes of St. Philip's and St. Michael's (indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as "L. W. Grimball")
1857 - M.D. degree, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (from: Charleston, SC; preceptors: Drs. Edward & John Frederick Meckel Geddings; thesis: "On
Strychnine")
06/01/1860 - Practiced medicine, Charleston, Charleston District, SC (living with parents - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as "Lewis Grimball")
06/01/1861 - Enlisted as Pvt., 2nd SC Infantry, Charleston, SC
08/21/1861 - Discharged from Co. I, 2nd SC Infantry
08/31/1861 - 2nd Lt., Co. B, 11th SC Infantry [Note: This company was also known as St. Paul's Rifles)
09/05/1861 - 2nd Lt., 11th SC Infantry
02/11/1862 - “The following medical officers will without delay report for duty to General R.E. Lee, commanding, at Coosawhatchie, S.C.: . . . Assistant Surgeons…Lewis M. Grimball.” [S.O. 34/3]
02/16/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, Camp Buist, SC, submitted a requisition for stationary, envelopes, steel pens, pen holder, wafers [used for sealing envelopes], & ink
03/01/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, Hospital, 1st SC Infantry (Butler's), Camp Buist, near John's Island Ferry, submitted a requisition for one wall tent and two army tents
03/31/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 1st SC Infantry & Capt. McCord's Company of Zouaves, "Runtowels", [this is probably Rantowles, SC]
04/17/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 02/01/1862
04/17/1862 - Confirmed as an Asst. Surgeon from South Carolina by the Confederate States Senate
04/17/1862 - Ordered to report to the Confederate Army Surgeon General [Richmond, VA]
04/17/1862 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon from SC by the Confederate States Senate
05/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 1st SC Infantry (Butler's), Church Flats, SC
06/24/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, Hospital, 1st SC Infantry, Camp Evans, Church Flats, SC, submitted a requisition for 15 bedsacks "in consequence of a want of supply"
07/07/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, Hospital, 1st SC Infantry (Butler's), Camp Evans, SC, submitted a requisition for 2 small camp kettles and one small army tent for "a want of supply"
09/20/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Hospital Department of Detachment 1st SC Infantry (Butler's)
09/25/1862 - Reassigned [S.O. 174/2 Dept. S.C., Ga., & Fla. Gen. Beauregard]
09/27/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, Hospital, detachment of the 1st SC Infantry (Butler's), submitted a requisition for 2 water buckets and one sweeping broom "on account of a want of supply for the use of Hospital"
10/29/1862 - Assigned [S.O. 208/4 Dept. S.C., Ga., & Fla. Gen. Beauregard]
04/15/1863 - Ordered to report to Surgeon Geddings, 2nd Military District, Dept. of S.C., Ga., & Fla. [S.O. 83/2 Dept. S.C., Ga., & Fla. Gen. Beauregard]
05/01/1863 - "Advanced Forces", stationed, Johns' Island, Dept. of S.C., Ga., & Fla.
07/01/1863 - Stationed at Church Flats, on the Stono River, SC
09/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon-in-charge, Adams Run Gen. Hospital, Adams Run, SC, during the absence of Asst. Surgeon Daniel Tucker
10/27/1863 - “The following-named assistant surgeons will report to Surgeon E. A. Flewellen, medical director, near Chattanooga, Tenn., for assignment to duty: Assistant Surgeons…L. M. Grimball….” [S.O. 255/7]
12/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 6th SC Cavalry, Adams Run, SC
12/26/1863 - Reported to Headquarters, Army of Tennessee
12/31/1863 - Ordered to report to Gen. T. C. Hindman
04/30/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 1st/3rd FL Infantry
05/31/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 1st/3rd FL Infantry
08/01/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Forsyth, GA
08/25/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 1st/3rd FL Infantry, Gen. J. J. Finley's Brigade, Gen. W.B, Bate's Division, Gen. W. J. Hardee's Corps, Army of Tennessee, Atlanta, GA
11/07/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 1st/3rd FL Infantry, Tuscumbia, AL
11/20/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 1st/3rd FL Infantry, Gen. J. J. Finley's Brigade, Gen. W.B. Bate's Division, Gen. B.F. Cheatham's Corps, Army of Tennessee
12/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 1st/3rd FL Infantry, Gen. J. J. Finley's Brigade, Gen. B.F. Cleburne's Division
03/26/1865 - Asst. Surgeon, 1st/3rd FL Infantry, Florida Brigade Headquarters, near Smithfield, NC
05/01/1865 - Paroled as Asst. Surgeon, 1st (Consolidated) FL Infantry, Greensboro, NC [Note: this consolidated unit was composed of 1st FL Cavalry, 1st, 3rd, 6th, 7th & 4th FL Infantry regiments]
02/07/1866 - Married, "Clementina G. Legge" (1843-1923), Charleston, SC
11/01/1866 - Birth of son, John Berkley Grimball (1866-1896)
06/04/1880 - Farmer & divorcee, Adams Run, Colleton Co., SC (lived with H. Grimball, a bachelor - indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as "D. L. M. Grimball") [Note: In
the 1880 U.S. Census, a "Clemantine G. Grimball", is listed as a divorcee, living with her son, John B. Grimball, and a Sarah C. Legge, Spartanburg Co., SC]
1880,1886,1890,1893,1896,1900 - Practiced medicine, Adam's Run, Colleton Co., SC
06/16/1900 - Living alone in Adams Run, Colleton Co., SC (indexed in the 1900 U.S. Census as "L. M. Gunnboll")
[Note: in the 1900 U.S. Census, former wife, "Cleminetine", is listed in the 1900 U.S. Census as a widowed inmate living at the Louise Home ["for the comfortable maintenance and support of genteel yet impoverish ladies" - most of whom were Confederate widows], Washington, DC
01/02/1901 - Died of Bright's disease of the kidneys, Adams Run, Charleston Co., SC

John Schneider 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.
01/28/2016. Unpublished database.