Father: Robert Annan
Mother: Elizabeth Hawthorne
1820 - M.D. degree, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland [thesis:Quadam de
Apoplexia sanguinea complecteus]
1820 - President, Royal Physical Society, Edinburgh, Scotland
1820-21 - Assistant, Guy's Hospital & at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, England
1822 - Practiced medicine, Emmetsburg, MD
01/13/1824 - Married, Mary Jane McKaleb
1827 - One of the founders of Washington
Medical College, Baltimore, MD
1827-34 - Professor of anatomy and physiology, Washington Medical College
1838 - 1845 - Physician, Baltimore Alms House, Baltimore, MD
10/07/1840 - Married, Anne Mary Ferrell Buchanan
1845-46 - Professor of general pathology,
and the special pathology, physical diagnosis
and treatment of diseases of the chest,
Washington Medical College, Baltimore, MD
1846-47 - Professor of obstetrics and
diseases of women and children,
Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
1848 - Professor of medical practice,
Transylvania University,
Lexington, KY
1850 - Practiced medicine, Fayette Co, KY
1850-52 - Professor of pathology and practice
of medicine, Kentucky School of Medicine,
Louisville, Jefferson Co, KY
1854-58 - First superintendent, Western Lunatic Asylum, Hopkinsville, KY
1860 - Practiced medicine, St Louis, MO
05/19/1862 - Ordered to report to
Confederate Surgeon
Thomas H. Williams, Lynchburg, VA
05/29/1862 - Surgeon, General Hospital No. 1, Lynchburg, VA
08/16/1862 - Appointed Surgeon to rank
from 05/10/1862
09/26/1862 - Confirmed as Surgeon by the C.S. Senate
10/00/1862 - Surgeon, General Hospital No. 1, Lynchburg, VA
11/12/1862 - Assigned to Board of Examiners for Furloughs and Discharges, Lynchburg, VA
03/00/1863 - On duty on Board of Medical Examiners, Lynchburg, VA
07/30/1863 - Surgeon, General Hospital No. 2, Lynchburg, VA
07/31/1863 - Transferred to General Hospital No. 1, Lynchburg, VA
08/03/1863 - Ordered to be Surgeon-in-charge, Hospital, Buchanan, VA
08/10/1863 - Surgeon-in-charge, Hospital, Buchanan, VA
10/07/1863 - Ordered to report to
Surgeon J. L. Woodward, Surgeon-in-charge,
General Hospital, Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, VA
10/07/1863 - Surgeon-in-charge, Division 2, Hospital, Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, VA
10/12/1863 - Ordered to report to Medical Director S. H. Stout, Marietta, GA
10/20/1863 - Ordered to report to Surgeon F. H. Evans, LaGrange, GA for duty
11/14/1863 - Surgeon, Hospital, LaGrange, GA
12/19/1863 - Surgeon, St. Mary's Hospital, LaGrange, GA
04/01/1864 - Surgeon-in-charge, St. Mary's Hospital, LaGrange, GA
05/28/1864 - Ordered to report to
Surgeon Geo. R. Douglass, Columbus, GA
06/01/1864 - Surgeon, Columbus, GA
08/15/1864 - Surgeon, St. Mary's Hospital, LaGrange, GA
09/23/1864 - Surgeon, Marshall Hospital, Columbus, GA
02/00/1865 - Surgeon, Marshall Hospital, Columbus, GA
02/08/1865 - Ordered to Macon, GA
03/29/1865 - Surgeon, St. Mary's Hospital, Dalton, GA
05/00/1865 - Surrendered, Macon, GA
06/02/1865 - Signed Oath of Allegiance to
the U. S. A., Nashville, TN
(Description. complexion: fair; hair: grey; eyes: grey, height; 6 ft)
1865 - Lived in Baltimore, MD
1866 - Surgeon to the steamship "Carroll"
of the Liverpool Line
1867 - Practiced medicine, 34 McCulloh St., Baltimore, MD

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
11/06/2011. Unpublished database.