Father: James Drewry
Mother: Mary Ann Myrick
1850 - Living with Rev. Thomas M. Newsom, St. Luke's Parish, Southampton Co. VA [Note: Rev. Newsom may have been Emmett's teacher - Emmett is indexed as Emmet Drewry in the 1850 U.S. Census]
03/08/1860 - M.D. degree, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA (from: Southampton Co., VA)
07/09/1860 - Practiced medicine, West Side of Nottoway River, Southampton, VA [living alone - indexed as E. A. Drewry in the 1860 U.S. Census]
05/07/1861 - Enlisted, Co. B, 9th VA Infantry, Sussex Co., VA
02/12/1862 - Married, Laura Sallie Roney, Dinwiddie, VA (she died in 1868)
05/08/1862 - "Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant"
06/30/1862 - 2nd Lt., 9th VA Infantry (pay was $80/mo.)
08/12/1862 - Detailed to enroll conscripts
11/24/1862 - Appointed Chief Examining Officer for the 2nd Congressional District comprised of Counties of Norfolk, Princess Anne, Nansemond, Isle of Wight, Southampton, _____, ____, ?Greenville & Norfolk City [See S.O. 592 Confederate Army A. & I. G. O.]
04/30/1863 - 2nd Lt., Co. B, 9th VA Infantry
06/08/1863 - Granted a furlough
06/24/1863 - “Leave of absence for fifteen days is granted Second Lieutenant Emmett A. Drewry, Company B, Ninth Regiment Virginia Volunteers.” [S.O. 150/17]
07/00/1863 - 2nd Lt., Co. B, 9th VA Infantry
08/07/1863 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 08/04/1863
08/07/1863 - “Assistant Surgeon Emmett A. Drewry will proceed without delay to Knoxville, Tenn., and report to Surgeon F. A. Ramsay [Ramsey,] medical director, &c., for assignment to duty.” [S.O. 187/4]
08/10/1863 - “Paragraphs IV and V, Special Orders No. 187, current series, are each modified, and Assistant Surgeon...Emmett A. Drewry will report to Surgeon W. A. Carrington, medical director, &c., in this city.” [S.O. 189/16]
08/10/1863 - Ordered to report to Senior Surgeon P. E. Hines, Petersburg, VA, to relieve Asst. Surgeon Edward Chaffers [S.O. 118/5 - Medical Director's Office]
08/11/1863 - Assigned to duty as Asst. Surgeon, Poplar Lawn Hospital, Petersburg, VA, and ordered to report to Surgeon-in-charge, R. P. Page [S.O. 95 by Senior Surgeon P. E. Hines, Petersburg, VA]
08/25/1863 - “The resignations of the following-named officers have been accepted by the President, to take effect to-day:...Second Lieutenant E. A. Drewry, Company B, Ninth Virginia Volunteers....” [S.O. 201/1] (Note: Dr. Drewry resigned his appointment as a 2nd Lt., but continued to serve the Confederate States as an Asst. Surgeon.)
10/03/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Poplar Lawn Hospital, Petersburg, VA
11/03/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Poplar Lawn Hospital, Petersburg, VA
12/21/1863 - Granted 10 days leave [S.O. 331 Dept. of Henrico, Richmond, VA]
01/31/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Poplar Lawn Hospital, Petersburg, VA
02/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Poplar Lawn Hospital, Petersburg, VA
02/02/1864 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 08/04/1863 [this is his second appt. - see 08/07/1863]
03/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, South Carolina Hospital, Petersburg, VA
04/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, South Carolina Hospital, Petersburg, VA
05/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Poplar Lawn Hospital, Petersburg, VA
07/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Poplar Lawn Hospital, Petersburg, VA
09/22/1864 - Sick in personal quarters, Poplar Lawn Hospital, Petersburg, VA, since 09/13/1864
10/11/1864 - “Assistant Surgeon E. A. Drewry is relieved from duty in hospital at Petersburg, Va., and will report without delay to Medical Director [P. E.] Hines, Raleigh, N.C.” [S.O. 241/14]
10/23/1864 - Assigned to duty as Asst. Surgeon, C.S.A. Military Prison Hospital [formerly, Gen. Hospital No. 9], Salisbury, NC, and ordered to report to Surgeon-in-charge R. O. Currey. "He has permission to go by Danville [VA] on business [and] to remain there one day"
11/03/1864 - Relieved from duty at Gen. Hospital No. 9, Salisbury, NC, and assigned to duty at Gen. Hospital No. 12, Greensboro, NC
12/08/1864 - “Leave of absence for thirty days is granted Assistant Surgeon E. A. Drewry, on duty at General Hospital No. 8, Raleigh, N.C.” [S.O. 291/5]
12/16/1864 - Granted 30 days leave from Gen. Hospital No. 8, Raleigh, NC
01/20/1865 - Returned for duty from furlough
03/00/1865 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital No. 8, Raleigh, NC
04/13/1865 - Captured while on duty in a hospital in Raleigh, NC
05/11/1865 - Paroled, Raleigh, NC
10/10/1868 - Wife, Laura, died in Southampton Co., VA
06/23/1870 - Practiced medicine, Drewryville Township, Southampton Co., VA (living with his 3 year old son)
11/02/1870 - Founding member of the Medical Society of Virginia, Richmond, VA
12/18/1873 - Married, Altazera Laughton "Alla" Booth, Petersburg, VA (she died in 1906)
1874 - Practiced medicine, Drewryville, Southampton Co., VA
1875 - Vice-President, Medical Society of Virginia
1880 - Practiced medicine, Drewryville District, Southampton Co., VA
1882 - Physician, Virginia State Penitentiary
1889,1890 - Practiced medicine, Drewryville, Southampton Co., VA
07/08/1891 - Died, Drewryville, Southampton Co., VA

Teresa Burgess Gibbs and Bob Krick 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.
12/23/2014. Updated 10/27/2020.
Unpublished database.