Father: Dr. Edward Foltz Knott (1811-1878)
Mother: Mary Ann F. Crenshaw (1818-1888)
1844 - Moved with family to Griffin, Spalding Co., GA
12/11/1850 - Lived with parents & sibs, Pike Co., GA
1851 - Worked in his father's drug store, Griffin, GA
1858-1859 - Attended, Atlanta Medical College, Atlanta, GA
1859 - M.D., Atlanta Medical College, Atlanta, GA (preceptor: Dr. Edward Foltz Knott)
10/13/1859 - Practiced medicine, Griffin, Spalding Co, GA
10/13/1859 - Received a U.S. Passport & travelled to Paris, France
1859-1860 - Supplemented his medical education in Paris, France, by attending schools and hospitals
06/04/1860 - Practiced medicine with his father, Dr. E. F. Knott, Spalding Co., GA (lived with his parents and sibs - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as James J. Knott)
1860-1861 - Professor of Anatomy, Middle Georgia Medical College, Griffin, GA
03/08/1861 - Enlisted as a Pvt., GA State Troops, Atlanta, GA
03/25/1861 - Mustered in, Pvt., Co D, 1st Confederate Regt. Infantry, Confederate Army, Fort McRee, near Pensacola, FL
10/31/1861 - Pvt., Co D, 1st Confederate Regt. Infantry
11/04/1861 - Pvt., Co D, 1st Confederate Regt. Infantry (later this became Co D, 36th GA Infantry (Villepigue's)]
11/04/1861 - Honorably discharged by reason of a request from the GA Governor Joseph E. Brown who assigned him as an Asst. Surgeon, 4th GA Infantry, Georgia State Troops
01/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 4th GA Infantry State Troops
06/04/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Prov. Army of the Confederate States
06/04/1862 - Assigned as Asst. Surgeon, 53rd GA Infantry
06/04/1862 - Served in a Camp of Instruction, Griffin, GA
06/25/1862 - Designated as Surgeon-in-Charge, 53rd GA Infantry [still had the official rank of Asst. Surgeon] during Seven Days Battles in Virginia
09/00/1862 - ?Captured during Battle of Sharpsburg (a.k.a., Battle of Antietam)
10/31/1862 - Absent near Sharpsburg, MD, taking care of Confederate wounded
11/00/1862 - As Prisoner of War, exchanged and rejoined his command near Culpeper Court House, VA
02/25/1863 - Asst. Surgeon-in-charge, General Longstreet's smallpox hospital, near Fredericksburg, VA
04/01/1863 - Returned to the 53rd GA Infantry as Acting Surgeon
04/30/1863 - Asst. Surgeon-in-charge 53rd GA Infantry during Battle of Chancellorsville
05/06/1864 - As Surgeon, 53rd GA Infantry, excised the entire right wrist joint of pt. Speer, Wilderness, VA, following a transverse wound of the right wrist, with fracture of the radius and carpal bones by a Minie-ball. [On November 21, 1868, this man was "able to perform as much manual labor at his occupation of farming as before the reception of the wound, although there was some abduction of the hand"
07/19/1864 - Surgeon, 53rd GA Infantry
08/11/1864 - Assignment - S.O. 189/42 "The following named officers will report without delay to Medical Director Cullen, Longstreet's corps: Surgeons...James J. Knott...."
09/00/1864 - Surgeon, 53rd GA Infantry near New Market, VA
11/04/1864 - Appointed Surgeon, PACS to rank from 07/19/1864
12/00/1864 - As Surgeon, 53rd GA Infantry, published a paper entitled, "A case of snake-bite successfully treated with calomel and iodide of potassium", [Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal, December, 1864, v. 1, no.12, p. 213.]
12/17/1864 - Confirmed as Surgeon by the C.S. Senate
12/28/1864 - Surgeon, 53rd GA Infantry, near Richmond, VA
12/31/1864 - "Absent with leave, by order of Gen. [R.E.] Lee upon recommendation of Medical Board"
01/00/1865 - On sick leave for 30 days and returned home to Georgia
02/00/1865 - "Absent without leave since 15th inst., at which time sick leave expired"
02/28/1865 - Surgeon, 53rd GA Infantry, near Richmond, VA
04/00/1865 - Surgeon-in-charge of Officer's Ward, Augusta, GA
1865 - Returned to the practice of medicine, Griffin, Spalding Co., GA
1866 - Moved his medical practice to Atlanta, GA
1868 - Married Francis E. "Fannie" Howe (1852-1881)
06/09/1870 - Practiced medicine, Griffin, Spalding Co., GA (lived with wife, Fannie - indexed in the 870 U.S. Census as James J. Knott)
1872 - Practiced medicine, Atlanta, Fulton Co., GA (residence: Collins between Cain and Ellis)
1878 - Father, Edward, died
1879 - Served as a preceptor for Dr. Arthur Middleton Speer who later practiced medicine in Grantville, GA
08/07/1881 - Wife, Fannie, died in Atlanta, GA
11/07/1883 - Married, Nellie Josephine "Willie" McCool (1862-1966 - died @ 103)
1880 - Practiced medicine, Atlanta, Fulton Co, GA
1888 - Mother, Mary Ann, died
1890 - Practiced medicine, 3 1/2 Whitehall, Atlanta, Fulton Co., GA
1893 - Performed a "trip of observation" of two weeks to Brunswick, GA, and Jessup, GA, during a yellow fever epidemic at those places
05/00/1899 - Elected, Vice-President, Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy, Charleston, SC
1900 - Practiced medicine, Atlanta, Fulton Co, GA
1910 - Practiced medicine, East Point, Fulton Co, GA
07/12/1914 - Died, Atlanta, GA [buried, Oakland Cem., Atlanta, Fulton Co, GA]
02/11/1966 - Wife, Nellie, died in Coweta, GA

Note: Following the American Civil War, many of Dr. Knott's Confederate Army case reports were published in the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion.

Note: Dr. Knott's middle name is spelled as "Jerrold" or "Jarold" in various references. In a biographical sketch published while he was alive, and presumably with his assistance, it is listed as "Jerrold." [Biography of Dr. James Jerrold Knott (1895) Memoirs of Georgia, The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, GA, vol. 1, pp. 846-47.]

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
02/16/2010. Updated 08/21/2017.
Unpublished database.

The following was added by Evening Blues, the creator of this memorial:

A company for Southern Confederacy which George W. Lee took to Pensacola, Fla., in February, 1861, bears the honor of being the first to tender its services to President Jefferson Davis, at Montgomery. One of the members of this company was Dr. James Knott. As the company returned from its successful mission they met with ovations all along the route. On the train with them were some ladies, who became so enthused that they procured some material at Grantville, made and presented the company with a handsome flag, the first one ever made in Georgia. The flag showed seven stars in a circle on a blue union and three horizontal bars of red and white.

Source:

Pioneer Citizens' History of Atlanta, 1833-1902, by the Pioneer Citizens' Society of Atlanta, published by Byrd Printing Company, p. 176.