Father: Dr. Archibald Stuart Baldwin
Mother: Catherine Mackey
1850 - Lived, Winchester, Frederick Co, VA
1860 - Medical student, Winchester, Frederick Co, VA
1860 - M.D. degree, Winchester Medical College, Winchester, VA
1861 - 2nd M.D. degree, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (from: VA; thesis: "Signs of Pregnancy")
00/00/1861 - Pvt., Co. F., 2nd VA Infantry *
05/16/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, Volunteer Forces of Virginia, Shepherdstown, VA (residence: Winchester, VA)
07/01/1861 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Confederate States Army
07/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry, Otterback's House, near Centreville, VA
08/03/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry, 1st Brigade, 2nd Corps, Army of the Potomac
08/20/1861 - Absent on sick leave, expected to return
about 08/30/1861
11/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry, camp near Winchester, VA
01/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry, Camp Zollicoffer [near Winchester]
09/19/1862 - Patient, Gen. Hospital No. 1, Lynchburg, VA
01/31/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry, in Richmond, VA on furlough
02/15/1863 - As Asst. Surgeon signed Certificate of Disability for Discharge for Pvt. Thomas F. Constable, 33rd VA Infantry. "I have carefully examined the said Thomas F. Constable ….and find him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier because of [a] gunshot wound received at 1st Battle of Manassas. The ball entered below the right ear on side of neck, passed up through the base of the tongue - fracturing the lower jaw on the left side. The applicant
cannot masticate solid food - & has lost the use of his tongue. I would recommend that he be discharged from the service." signed, C. Baldwin, Asst. Surgeon, 33rd Reg Va Infantry, Camp Winder, Richmond, VA
02/28/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry, Richmond, VA, on furlough
03/21/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry
01/31/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry, camp of the Stonewall Brigade
03/31/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry, camp near Pisgah Church, VA
10/04/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry
02/27/1865 - Asst. Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry, Camp Ewell, near Burgess Mill [VA]
04/09/1865 - Surrendered and paroled, Appomattox, VA, as Asst. Surgeon, 33rd VA Infantry ( residence: Winchester, VA)
04/00/1866 - Married, Anna Marshall Jones (she died in 1867)
1870,1874,1890,1900,1910 - Practiced medicine, Winchester, Frederick Co, VA
01/29/1916 - Died in his home, Winchester, Frederick Co, VA

*Frye, D. E. [1984] 2nd Virginia Infantry, H. E. Howard, Inc., Lynchburg, VA, 4th edition. A roster in this reference attributes service with the 2nd Virginia Infantry very early in the war, based on an "unofficial source." This has not been corroborated.

From: Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical register of physicians who served the Confederacy in a medical capacity. 03/08/2012. Updated, 12/07/2013.
Unpublished database.


The following biographical notes were added by stars&bars.

CSA: Company F, 2nd Virginia Infantry. A surgeon in the Stonewall Brigade. Postwar Medical Doctor in Winchester.
Cornelius's death announcement was posted in the "Evening Star", Washington, D.C. on February 6, 1916, page 78 and read as follows. Dr. Cornelius Baldwin, seventy-eight years old, a retired physician, who died several days since in Winchester Memorial Hospital, was one of three brothers who served side by side as surgeons in the Confederate Army. The other two being the late Dr. John Baldwin and the late Dr. Robert Baldwin. Dr. Baldwins wife, who was Miss Anna Jones of New Orleans died many years ago. She was a daughter of Charles Marshall Jones, a lawyer and associate of Judah P. Benjamin, secretary of state of the Confederate States and, after the war, Queen's counsel in London. One son, C.M. [Cornelius Marshall] Baldwin survives.