Father: Jacob Tanner
Mother: Charity Frazee
1845 - M.D. degree, The University of the City of New York, Medical Department, New York (from: VA)
12/08/1848 - Married, Elizabeth "Bettie" Johnson, Jefferson Co., VA (she died in 1900)
1850 - Practiced medicine, Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co., VA [indexed as J. H. Tanner in the 1850 U. S. Census]
1860 - Practiced medicine and living with wife, Elizabeth, in Jefferson Co., VA
04/18/1861 - Enlisted, 2nd Lt., Co. F, 1st VA Cavalry, Shepherdstown, VA
05/03/1861 - 2nd Lt., Co. F. 1st VA Cavalry, Harper's Ferry, VA
07/02/1861 - "Asst. Surgeon", Pringle House Hospital, Manassas, VA
07/19/1861 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States and ordered to report to Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard
07/20/1861 - Final day that he claimed pay due as Lt. 1st VA Cavalry
08/18/1861 - At Pringle House Hospital, Manassas, VA [may have been a patient]
08/23/1861 - Temporary duty as Asst. Surgeon, 11th NC Infantry, Army of the Potomac, Camp Pickens, Manassas, VA
10/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Manassas Junction, VA
11/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Manassas Junction, VA
12/15/1861 - Relived from duty as Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Manassas, VA and ordered to report to W. W. Anderson, Surgeon-in-charge, Moore Hospital,Manassas, VA
01/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Moore Hospital, Manassas Junction, VA
02/04/1862 - Applied for 15 days leave "to attend to the actual necessities of my family." [this application was disapproved by Gen. J. E. Johnston on 02/06/1862]
02/05/1862 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 11/04/1861 and ordered to report to Gen. J. E. Johnston
02/24/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Moore Hospital, Manassas Junction, VA [It appears that Dr. Tanner was not aware of his promotion to Surgeon at this time]
02/24/1862 - Granted 10 days sick leave on Surgeon's Certificate of Disability [S.O. 59 Gen. J. E. Johnston]
03/31/1862 - Temporarily assigned as Surgeon, 21st NC Infantry, Army of the Potomac - Surgeon, 11th/21st NC Infantry
12/01/1863 - Senior Surgeon. Gen. R. F. Hoke's Brigade
09/06/1864 - Granted 30 days leave
09/07/1864 - Ordered to report to Gen. R. F. Hoke for assignment to duty as Chief Surgeon of his Division
02/00/1865 - Chief Surgeon, Gen. R. F. Hoke's Division, Duplin Depot, NC [3rd Military District, Department of North Carolina]
04/09/1865 - Chief Surgeon, Gen. R. F. Hoke's Division, near Smithfield, NC
05/02/1865 - Chief Surgeon, Maj. Gen. Robert Frederick Hoke's Division
05/02/1865 - Paroled, High Point, NC
1870 - Farmer and physician, Chapline Township, Jefferson Co., WV
1874 - Practiced medicine, Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co., WV
1880 - Practiced medicine, Potomac, Jefferson Co., WV [indexed as J. S. Tanner in the 1880 U. S. Census]
1886,1890,1893,1900 - Practiced medicine, Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co., WV
08/22/1900 - Wife, Elizabeth, died
04/10/1903 - Died of "paralysis" at his home, Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co., WV

Note: Dr. Tanner served two terms in the West Virginia State Legislature

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
08/25/2014. Unpublished database.

The following was added by the creator of this memorial, Scott Hutchison:

2nd Lt.,Co.F,1st Va.Cav.Regt.;Surgeon,21st N.C.Inf.Regt.;
Brigade Surgeon;Chief Surgeon,Hoke's Division