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Dr Thomas Whitaker Salmond

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Dr Thomas Whitaker Salmond Veteran

Birth
Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina, USA
Death
31 Aug 1869 (aged 44)
Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina, USA
Burial
Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 15
Memorial ID
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Father: Thomas Durham Salmond
Mother: Margaret Irvin
1849 - M.D. degree, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (from: Camden, Kershaw District, SC)
1850 - Practiced medicine, Kershaw District, SC
11/26/1851 - Married, Mary Whitaker
07/26/1857 - Wife, Mary, died
10/31/1859 - Married, Isabel Scota Whitaker (younger sister of 1st wife - Isabel Scota died in 1922 from complications following a broken hip)
02/02/1861 - "Commissioned in [SC] State service"
?04/09/1861 - Enlisted, 2nd SC Infantry
06/28/1861 - Surgeon, Hospital of the 2nd SC Infantry, Fairfax C.H., VA
07/00/1861 - Surgeon, 2nd SC Infantry, Flint Hill, VA
07/16/1861 - Surgeon, 2nd SC Infantry, Battle of 1st Manassas, Manassas, VA
08/03/1861 - Surgeon, 2nd SC Infantry, Camp Gregg, Vienna, VA, Army of the Potomac
01/00/1862 - Surgeon, 2nd SC Infantry, camp near Union Mills, VA
03/27/1862 - Senior Surgeon, 1st Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Potomac
04/16/1862 - Senior Surgeon, 4th Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Potomac
05/02/1863 - Senior Surgeon, Kershaw's Brigade, Battle of Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville, VA
09/12/1862 - Brigade Surgeon, Gen. J. B. Kershaw's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, Maryland Heights, MD, overlooking Harpers Ferry, VA
07/02/1863 - On the Gettysburg, PA, battlefield, he "secured" his hometown friend, Capt. W. Z. Leitner, in an ambulance after the latter sustained a shot injury to the knee. He later successfully amputated Capt. Leitner's leg.
07/17/1863 - Senior Surgeon, Gen. J. B. Kershaw's Brigade
08/00/1863 - Brigade Surgeon, Gen. J. B. Kershaw's Brigade
08/25/1863 - Senior Surgeon, Gen. J. B. Kershaw's Brigade
08/31/1863 - On furlough of indulgence for 20 days
03/26/1864 - Dr. J. J. Chisolm reported the following after examining Surgeon T. W. Salmond of Gen. J. B. Kershaw's Brigade: "[I] find him suffering from involuntary discharges of urine which are excessively annoying to him. He has been under treatment for sixty days without benefit. The disease is of twelve months duration and for its persistence renders him unfit to perform the duties required of him in the Brigade"
04/04/1864 - Surgeon, 2nd SC Infantry, camp near Bristol, TN
00/00/1864 - "Ill health forced his return home"
1867 - Practiced medicine, Camden, Kershaw Co., SC
03/13/1869 - The South Carolina House of Representatives adopted a resolution to pay Dr. T. W. Whitaker $20 for post mortem examinations and $65 for attendance upon prisoners in jail. This resolution was sent to the South Carolina Senate. [Source: Daily Phoenix, Columbia, SC]
08/31/1869 - Died "after a long and painful illness", Camden, Kershaw Co., SC

Edward Traxler provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
01/08/2015. Unpublished database.

The following was added by Ed Traxler, the creator of this memorial:

In the family plot there is a "Memory Stone" - the lower photo - that lists his parents and siblings
Father: Thomas Durham Salmond
Mother: Margaret Irvin
1849 - M.D. degree, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (from: Camden, Kershaw District, SC)
1850 - Practiced medicine, Kershaw District, SC
11/26/1851 - Married, Mary Whitaker
07/26/1857 - Wife, Mary, died
10/31/1859 - Married, Isabel Scota Whitaker (younger sister of 1st wife - Isabel Scota died in 1922 from complications following a broken hip)
02/02/1861 - "Commissioned in [SC] State service"
?04/09/1861 - Enlisted, 2nd SC Infantry
06/28/1861 - Surgeon, Hospital of the 2nd SC Infantry, Fairfax C.H., VA
07/00/1861 - Surgeon, 2nd SC Infantry, Flint Hill, VA
07/16/1861 - Surgeon, 2nd SC Infantry, Battle of 1st Manassas, Manassas, VA
08/03/1861 - Surgeon, 2nd SC Infantry, Camp Gregg, Vienna, VA, Army of the Potomac
01/00/1862 - Surgeon, 2nd SC Infantry, camp near Union Mills, VA
03/27/1862 - Senior Surgeon, 1st Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Potomac
04/16/1862 - Senior Surgeon, 4th Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Potomac
05/02/1863 - Senior Surgeon, Kershaw's Brigade, Battle of Chancellorsville, Chancellorsville, VA
09/12/1862 - Brigade Surgeon, Gen. J. B. Kershaw's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, Maryland Heights, MD, overlooking Harpers Ferry, VA
07/02/1863 - On the Gettysburg, PA, battlefield, he "secured" his hometown friend, Capt. W. Z. Leitner, in an ambulance after the latter sustained a shot injury to the knee. He later successfully amputated Capt. Leitner's leg.
07/17/1863 - Senior Surgeon, Gen. J. B. Kershaw's Brigade
08/00/1863 - Brigade Surgeon, Gen. J. B. Kershaw's Brigade
08/25/1863 - Senior Surgeon, Gen. J. B. Kershaw's Brigade
08/31/1863 - On furlough of indulgence for 20 days
03/26/1864 - Dr. J. J. Chisolm reported the following after examining Surgeon T. W. Salmond of Gen. J. B. Kershaw's Brigade: "[I] find him suffering from involuntary discharges of urine which are excessively annoying to him. He has been under treatment for sixty days without benefit. The disease is of twelve months duration and for its persistence renders him unfit to perform the duties required of him in the Brigade"
04/04/1864 - Surgeon, 2nd SC Infantry, camp near Bristol, TN
00/00/1864 - "Ill health forced his return home"
1867 - Practiced medicine, Camden, Kershaw Co., SC
03/13/1869 - The South Carolina House of Representatives adopted a resolution to pay Dr. T. W. Whitaker $20 for post mortem examinations and $65 for attendance upon prisoners in jail. This resolution was sent to the South Carolina Senate. [Source: Daily Phoenix, Columbia, SC]
08/31/1869 - Died "after a long and painful illness", Camden, Kershaw Co., SC

Edward Traxler provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
01/08/2015. Unpublished database.

The following was added by Ed Traxler, the creator of this memorial:

In the family plot there is a "Memory Stone" - the lower photo - that lists his parents and siblings


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