Father: William Blackstone Nott, M.D. (1795-1864)
Mother: Caroline Jane Naylor
- Classical education, Limestone Springs, Spartanburg District, SC
1849 - A.B. degree, South Carolina College, Columbia, SC
1852 - M.D. degree, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (from: Spartanburg, SC; preceptor: Dr. William B. Nott; thesis: "On Pneumonia")
04/13/1861 - Enlisted, 5th SC Infantry, Limestone Springs, Spartanburg Co., SC
06/04/1861 - Mustered-in, Pvt., 5th SC Infantry, Orangeburg, SC
06/30/1861 - Pvt., Co. G, 5th SC Infantry
08/00/1861 - Absent from the 5th SC Infantry "attending sick in or near Warrenton, Va., by order of Col. Jenkins"
12/00/1861 - Pvt., Co. G, 5th SC Infantry ["present"]
1862 - Married, Julia Helena Wallace (she died in 1878)
04/26/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 02/25/1862
05/06/1862 - "The following medical officers having received unfavorable reports from [the] Army Medical Board of Examination, will have their names dropped from the rolls, and from this day cease to be officers of the Confederate States Army: Surgeons...Thomas E. Nott...." [S.O. 104/18]
06/01/1863 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 12/11/1863 [or 12/14/1863]
12/23/1863 - "The following-named medical officers will proceed without delay to Rogersville, Tenn., and report to Lieutenant-General J. Longstreet, commanding, for assignment to duty: Assistant Surgeons Thomas E. Nott...." [S.O.304/6]
02/26/1864 - "So much of Paragraph VI, Special Orders No. 304, series for 1863, as refers to Assistant Surgeon Thos. E. Nott is hereby revoked, and Assistant Surgeon Nott will report to the colonel of the Eighteenth South Carolina Volunteers for assignment to duty." [S.O. 47/30]
03/31/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 18th SC Infantry
06/01/1864 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
08/31/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 18th SC Infantry ["present"]
09/26/1864 - Ordered to report to the 18th SC Infantry
10/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 18th SC Infantry, near Petersburg, VA
10/26/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 18th SC Regiment, Petersburg, VA ["assigned to this regiment, not reported]
11/11/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 18th SC Volunteers
11/26/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 18th SC Regiment, Petersburg, VA
12/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 18th SC Infantry, near Petersburg, VA
12/29/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 18th SC Regiment, Petersburg, VA ["was assigned and has not reported"]
02/19/1865 - Asst. Surgeon, 18th SC Regiment, Petersburg, VA
02/27/1865 - Asst. Surgeon, 18th SC Infantry, Gen. W. H. Wallace's Brigade, Petersburg, VA
04/00/1865 - Captured, Petersburg, VA
1872 - Practiced medicine, Union Co., SC
1874,1880 - Practiced medicine, Spartanburg, Spartanburg Co., SC
00/00/1882 - Married, Mary Wallace (she died in 1915)
1886,1890,1893,1900 - Practiced medicine, Spartanburg, Spartanburg Co., SC
1901 - Member, Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy
1903 - Practiced medicine with his son, Thomas Edwin Nott, Jr., M.D., Spartanburg, Spartanburg Co., SC
01/19/1907 - Died at his residence on North Liberty St., Spartanburg Co., SC about 7:45 p.m. after months of suffering

Note. Dr. Josiah Clark Nott and Dr. Henry Junius Nott were uncles of Dr. Thomas Edwin Nott, Sr. and also served as Confederate physicians.

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.
04/14/2014. Unpublished database.