- Born, Charleston, Kanawha Co., VA [This county was in Virginia until June 20, 1863, when West Virginia was admitted as a state in the United States of America]
Father: Dr. Spicer Patrick
Mother: Lavinia Virginia Bream
1850 - Teacher, Charleston, VA
1853 - M.D. degree, Medical College of Ohio, Cincinnati, OH (from VA)
1860 - Practiced medicine, Kanawha Co., VA
05/08/1861 - Enlisted, Pvt., 22nd VA Infantry, Kanawha C.H., VA [Mustered in by Col. John McCausland]
07/23/1861 - Detailed for hospital duty
07/31/1861 - Pvt., Co. I, 22nd VA Infantry, Kanawha Co., VA
09/12/1861 to 02/15/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, 22nd VA Infantry (paid 60 cents/day)
02/16/1862 to 07/01/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, 22nd VA Infantry
05/26/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, VA
05/29/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Salt Sulphur Springs, VA
07/01/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Camp McCausland, [?VA]
12/26/1862 to 02/28/1863 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, 22nd VA Infantry
03/09/1863 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, 22nd VA Infantry, Salt Sulphur Springs, VA
12/18/1862 - Married, Virginia "Jennie" Amanda Mathews [or Matthews], Greenbrier Co., VA (she died in 1923)
06/12/1863 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, 22nd VA Infantry, Lewisburg, VA
07/01/1863 to 08/12/1863 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, 22nd VA Infantry
08/12/1863 - "Assistant Surgeon Alfred S. Patrick will report without delay to the colonel of the Twenty-second Regiment Virginia Volunteers for assignment to duty." [S.O. 191/2]
02/02/1864 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 08/07/1863
02/02/1864 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
10/04/1864 - Absent, 22nd VA Infantry
10/20/1864 - His father, Spicer Patrick, M.D., died
11/19/1864 - "Surgeon Alfred S. Patrick, Army Northern Virginia, will report without
delay to officer in command Twenty-second Regiment Virginia Infantry, for duty--reassignment upon promotion." [S.O. 275/12]
11/28/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 22nd VA Infantry, camp near New Market, VA [On this date, Dr. Patrick was not aware that he had been promoted to the rank of Surgeon]
01/09/1865 - Surgeon, 22nd VA Infantry, 1st Brigade, Wharton's Division, Army of the Valley District, Camp Wharton [?VA]
01/19/1865 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 11/14/1864
02/11/1865 - Wrote a letter of acceptance of the appointment as Surgeon by the President to Gen. S. Cooper, Adjutant & Inspector General, CSA while serving at the headquarters, 22nd VA Infantry, Red Sulphur Springs, VA
[He also stated that he was 33 years and 6 months old]
01/19/1865 - Confirmed as Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
04/26/1865 - Surgeon, 22nd VA Infantry
04/26/1865 - Paroled, Lewisburg, WV [1st parole]
05/10/1865 - Paroled, Charleston, WV [description at time of parole - age: 34; height: 6 ft. 1 1/2 in.; complexion: light; eyes: blue; hair; brown; whiskers: sandy]
1870 - Practiced medicine, Charleston, Kanawha Co., WV
1872,1880,1886 - Practiced medicine, Lewisburgh, Greenbrier Co., WV
1890,1893,1900 - Practiced medicine, Charleston, Kanawha Co., WV

Robert 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.
08/12/2013. Unpublished database.


The following biographical notes are by
Bev (#47588577)

He was described at enlistment as:
6' 1.0", light complexion, blue eyes, dark hair
08/15/1861 -Returned from detail -[Estimated day]
11/15/1861 - Detailed , Hospital, White Sulphur Springs, VA
02/11/1865 - Transferred from company H to Field & Staff
Member of Greenbrier Co and Charleston
Medical & Surgical Societies.