Father: Zaccheus Aills (1800-1869)
Mother: Ann Goode (1808-1849)
07/29/1849 - Mother, Ann, died in Hinds Co., MS (buried: Goode-Aills Cemetery, Hinds Co., MS)
1853 - M.D. degree, The Medical Department of the University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA (from Crystal Springs, Copiah Co., MS)
08/02/1860 - Practiced medicine, Rankin Co., MS (indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as William Aills)
08/24/1861 - Mustered-in as Surgeon, 6th MS Infantry, Grenada, Grenada Co, MS
09/25/1861 - Surgeon, 6th MS Infantry, Trenton, TN
01/10/1862 - In a letter from Bowling Green, KY to Gen. Leonidas Polk, "Dear Sir, I was transferred from service of the State of Mississippi to that of the Confederate States as Surgeon of the 6th Miss. Vol. which were placed under your command. I have been acting as Surgeon ever since but have received no commission. If you have a commission for me you will much oblige me by forwarding it to me at this place. You have sent commissions, I understand, to our Quarter Master Commissary so I suppose I am equally entitled to mine as also Asst. Surgeon J[ackson] L. Riley. Very Respectfully, Your Ob't Svt. Wm. Aills, Surgeon 6th Miss Vols."
05/17/1862 - 6th MS Infantry
07/20/1862 - Surgeon, 6th MS Infantry, Vicksburg, MS
12/31/1862 - Surgeon, 6th MS Infantry, Grenada, MS
05/25/1863 - Surgeon, 6th MS Infantry, Jackson, MS
05/30/1863 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 08/24/1862 [Note: This appointment should have ranked from 08/24/1861]
05/30/1863 - Ordered to report to Gen. B. Bragg
07/01/1863 - Surgeon, 6th MS Infantry, Beaties Bluff [also, Beatties Bluff], Madison Co., MS
08/08/1863 - Senior Surgeon, Gen. J. Adams' Brigade, Gen. W.W. Loring's Division
08/31/1863 - Surgeon, 6th MS Infantry, Newton, MS
10/31/1863 - Surgeon, 6th MS Infantry, Canton, MS
12/31/1863 - Surgeon, 6th MS Infantry, Canton, MS
01/30/1864 - Confirmed as Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
01/31/1864 - Surgeon, 6th MS Infantry, Gen. J. Adams' Brigade, Gen. W.W. Loring's Division,
Lt. Gen. Polk's Department
06/30/1864 - Surgeon, 6th MS Infantry & Senior Surgeon, Gen. J. Adams' Brigade
08/20/1864 - Senior Surgeon, Gen. J. Adams' Brigade, Gen. W. W. Loring's Division, Gen. A. P. Stewart's Corps, Army of Tennessee, at Division Hospital
08/31/1864 - Surgeon, 6th MS Infantry, Atlanta, GA
00/00/1866 - Married, Sarah Dennis "Sallie" Farrah (1841-1908)
10/26/1869 - Father, Zaccheus, died in Copiah Co., MS (buried: Goode-Aills Cemetery, Hinds Co., MS)
07/19/1870 - Practiced medicine, Township Four, Rankin Co., MS (lived with wife, Sallie D., and two children - indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as William Aills)
1874 - Practiced medicine, Steen's Creek, Rankin Co, MS
06/14/1880 - Practiced medicine, District No. 7, Rankin Co., MS (lived with wife, Sallie D., four daughters, and two sons - indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as Wm. Aills)
1886,1890 - Practiced medicine, Steen's Creek, Rankin Co, MS
06/20/1900 - Practiced medicine, Beat 1, Rankin Co., MS (lived with wife, Sallie, and two daughters - indexed in the 1900 U.S. Census as "William Ails")
01/14/1905 - Died at his home, Steen's Creek, Rankin Co., MS (buried: Florence Cemetery, [formerly Steen's Creek Cemetery], Rankin Co, MS)
07/26/1908 - Widow, Sallie D., died (buried: Florence Cemetery, Florence, Rankin Co., MS)

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
03/07/2012 Updated 02/01/2018.
Unpublished database.

The following information was provided by Lynda White:

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Dr. Aills was a doctor during the Civil War, at the battle of Port Gibson. He cared for the soldiers under the command of Col Robert Lowry who later became brigadier General and still later Governor of Mississippi. They was a member of the 6th.Mississippi Company A. As a battle field doctor, he cared for my relative W. G. Steen, who is also burried in this cememtery.
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