Father: John James Arthur (1799-1860)
Mother: Jemina Sellers Gallman (1814-1909)
- Attended, Edgefield Academy, Edgefield District, SC
08/16/1850 - Living with H.P. Gallman and M. P. Gallman, Edgefield District, SC [indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as Henry Arthur]
~1856-1860 - Druggist, Edgefield District, SC (four years)
09/24/1860 - Medical student living with Dr. A. G. Teague, Edgefield Village, Edgefield District, SC [indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as H. Arthurs]
1860-1861 - Attended, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, but did not receive an M.D. degree (from: Edgefield, SC; preceptor: Dr. A. G. Teague)
04/15/1861 - Enlisted as Pvt., Co. K, 7th SC Infantry, Charleston, SC
07/03/1861 - Hospital Steward, 7th SC Infantry
11/03/1861 - Hospital Steward, 7th SC Infantry (paid as a Sergeant - $21/mo, not as a Hospital Steward)
01/16/1862 - Hospital Steward, 7th SC Infantry
01/16/1862 - Admitted as a patient to Moore Hospital at Gen. Hospital, No. 1, Danville, VA (diagnosis: debility)
01/17/1862 - Transferred to C.S.A. Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, as a patient diagnosis: "debility")
01/18/1862 - Transferred to "S.C. H." [?South Carolina Hospital]
02/05/1862 - Attached to Gen. Hospital, Division No. 2, Charlottesville, VA, as a Nurse
1862 - Attended, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (did not graduate)
- Detached as Hospital Steward, Gordonsville, VA
03/13/1863 - Returned to the camp of the 7th SC Infantry
07/00/1863 - Pvt., 7th SC Infantry
10/00/1863 - Pvt., 7th SC Infantry
02/00/1864 - Detailed in the Confederate Medical Department
03/15/1864 - Appointed, Hospital Steward, 7th SC Infantry, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
06/00/1864 - Hospital Steward, 7th SC Infantry
~11/06/1864 - Wrote a letter to Professor L. S. Joyner, Medical College of Virginia, requesting help with his application to the Secretary of War for a transfer from field duty to hospital duty in Richmond, VA, so that he could attend the Medical College of Virginia [If admitted, he did not receive an M.D. degree from the Medical College of Virginia.]
11/24/1864 - Admitted as a patient, C.S.A. Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA (diagnosis: Febris Remittens)
12/02/1864 - Returned to duty as Hospital Steward, 7th SC Infantry
05/02/1865 - Paroled, Greensboro, NC
02/28/1866 - Married, Sarah "Sallie" Jane Boulware Penn, Edgefield Co., SC
1870,1880 - Farmer, Edgefield Co., SC [living with 1st wife & children]
02/12/1880 - As a sewing machine salesman, advertised in the Edgefield [SC] Advertiser - "always on hand at Edgefield and Johnston, S. C., the OLD RELIABLE and IMPROVED No. 8 WHEELER & WILSON SEWING MACHINES. H. G. ARTHUR"
1883 - Member, Grand Jury of Edgefield Co., SC
03/15/1883 - As a map salesman, advertised in the Edgefield [SC] Advertiser for "two maps in one - with a vast and varied amount of statistical and other information. H. G. Arthur, Ag't, Edgefield, SC"
10/15/1895 - Married, Anzonette Lance [a.k.a., Amyrdella], Greenville Co., SC (she died in 1937)
06/07/1900 - Storekeeper and gauger [collector of taxes], Greenville Co., SC (living with 2nd wife)
08/23/1905 - "Miss Annie DeNaha, a very pretty young lady from Augusta, is the guest of Mr. & Mrs. H. G. Arthur at their hospitable country home." [Edgefield Advertiser, Aug. 23, 1905]
04/15/1910 - Commercial salesman of trunks, Greenville Township, Greenville Co., SC (indexed in the 1910 census as Henry G. Arthur - living with second wife)
12/24/1911 - Died at the home of his son, E. P. Arthur, Kissimmee, Osceola Co., FL

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
12/18/2014. Unpublished database.