Father: Rev. John Rains
Mother: Lucinda Cartwright
1850 - Clerk, Nashville, Davidson Co, TN
12/23/1858 - Married, Elizabeth Wilson,
Warren Co, TN
1860 - Druggist, Nashville,
Davidson Co, TN
08/26/1863 to 09/28/1863 - As private
citizens, Thomas B. Rains [druggist] and
J. A. B. Besson [book keeper] were ordered
by Medical Purveyor William Morrow to
travel "in charge of medical supplies for
safe keeping" from Knoxville [TN] to
Marion [VA] to Marietta [GA] via
Petersburg [VA] on VA & NC railroads
[Surgeon General Samuel Preston Moore
referred to their mission as "courier"
activity and allowed them $5/day for pay]
01/01/1864 to 04/13/1864 - Chief Apothecary,
Medical Purveyor's Office, Bristol, TN
04/13/1864 - Appointed Hospital Steward
by the Confederate Secretary of War
04/13/1864 - Hospital Steward, Chimborazo
Hospital No. 5, Richmond, VA
09/22/1864 - Hospital Steward, Bristol, TN
10/15/1864 - Assigned to Chimborazo Hospital
No. 5, Richmond, VA, to serve as a
Hospital Steward and to attend lectures at
medical college [Medical College of VA,
Richmond, VA]
11/00/1864 - Hospital Steward, Chimborazo
Hospital No. 5, Richmond, VA
01/01/1865 - Hospital Steward, Chimborazo
Hospital No. 5, Richmond, VA and attending
lectures at medical college
02/27/1865 - Relieved from hospital duty
in Richmond, VA, and ordered to report to
Medical Director [Frank A.] Ramsey, Bristol, TN
03/08/1865 - Relieved [S.O. 56/21]
1870 - Graduate in Pharmacy, College of
Pharmacy of the City of New York, New York
(from: Columbia, TN)
1870 - M.D. degree, Medical Department
of the University of Nashville, Nashville,
TN (from: Columbia, Maury Co, TN, during
senior year of medical school)
1880 - Druggist, Columbia, Maury Co, TN

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
03/22/2013. Unpublished database.

Note: This is not the Thomas B. Rains
who served with the 6th TN Infantry.
The latter was killed during the Civil War.