Father: Robert Armstrong Lapsley
Mother: Catherine Rutherford Walker
1853 - M.D. degree, University of Nashville,
Medical Department, Nashville, TN
(from: Rome, Smith Co, TN)
1860 - Practiced medicine, Smith Co, TN
05/20/1861 - Enlisted, Confederate Army, Nashville, TN
08/00/1861 - Pvt., Co. B, 7th TN Infantry
09/24/1861 - Pvt., Co. B, 7th TN Infantry
- "sick at Springs"
11/05/1861 - Examined by Medical Director
William Allen Carrington who found him
"incapable of the duties of a soldier because
of scrofula [tuberculosis] of many years"
11/08/1861 - Discharged due to disability
as Pvt., 7th TN Infantry, Healing Springs, VA
01/23/1862-02/11/1862 - As a private M.D,
provided medical attention to 110
[Confederate] officers and men in
Carthage, LA, for $25
08/19/1864 - Worked for the Shelby Iron Works, near Columbiana, Shelby Co, AL, as surgeon-in-charge. Provided medical treatment for "some 400 hands, white and black."
- Asst. Surgeon, TN Light Artillery, (Winston's)
04/09/1865 - Captured in Blakely, AL, while
serving as Acting Surgeon, Winston's Battery,
Confederate States Army by the 2nd Division,
16th Army Corps, U.S. Army
04/16/1865 - Prisoner, Ship Island, MS
04/28/1865 - Prisoner, transferred from Ship
Island, MS, to Vicksburg, MS
04/30/1865 - Prisoner, New Orleans, LA
05/12/1865 - Paroled as Asst. Surgeon,
Winston's TN Battery, Jackson, MS
06/02/1865 - Signed, Oath of Allegiance
to the United States and allowed to return
to his home in Smith Co, TN (Description - complexion: fair; hair: dark; eyes: hazel; height: 5 ft. 8 1/2 in.)

Note: Catharine Rutherford Walker Lapsley is the sister of Agnes Walker Norvell (#102072075). Like Dr. Lapsley, Agnes is buried in Live Oak Cemetery, while Catharine, Dr. Lapsley's mother, is buried in Nashville, TN.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
12/28/2012. Unpublished database.