Father: Rev. James Morrison
Mother: Frances "Fannie" Brown
1846-1847 - Attended Washington College [now Washington and Lee University]
1851-1852 - Attended, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
06/00/1853 - M.D. degree, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (from: Rockbridge Co., VA)
1853 - Practiced medicine, Rockbridge Co., VA
10/19/1854 - Married, Mary Elizabeth Gold, Rockbridge Co., VA (she died in 1910)
1860 - Practiced medicine, Rockbridge Co., VA
10/09/1861 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
10/09/1861 - Ordered to report to the 58th VA Infantry
03/31/1862 - Surgeon, 58th VA Infantry
07/09/1862 - As Surgeon, 58th VA Infantry, submitted a requisition for a horse to replace a lost ambulance horse [The horse was received by Dr. Morrison at "Stark's House Hospital" the same day. This hospital appears to have been near Cold Harbor, VA]
08/16/1862 - Chief Surgeon, Gen. R. S. Ewell's Division
08/29/1862 - At the battle of Groveton, Gen. R. S. Ewell was badly wounded in the leg. Surgeon Morrison successfully amputated it at 2:00 a.m. [per research by R. E. L. Krick.] "Ewell continued in active service for the rest of the war."
04/18/1863 - As Chief Surgeon to Gen. Early's Division, wrote a letter to Gen. Early "of the necessity of obtaining additional ambulances for the Division"
05/07/1863 - As a consultant, he was called to the bedside of wounded Gen. T. J. Jackson. The General supposedly said, "That's an old familiar face."
08/17/1863 - Chief Surgeon, Gen. J. A. Early's Division
01/13/1864 - Leave of absence for 20 days [S.O. 12/12 Dept. & A.N.Va. - Gen. Lee]
10/08/1864 - Chief Surgeon, Gen. J. A. Early's Division
10/10/1864 - "Surgeon Samuel B. Morrison of Army of Valley, is assigned to duty as medical director of said army." [S.O. 240/31]
10/14/1864 - Announced as Medical Inspector, Army of the Valley District
10/19/1864 - "Paragraph XXXI, Special Orders [No.] 240, October 10, 1864, is altered [so] as to read as follows: Surgeon Samuel B. Morrison is assigned to duty as medical inspector of the Army Valley of Virginia." [S.O. 248/13]
10/31/1864 - Surgeon and Medical Inspector, Gen. J. A. Early's Corps
1869 - Member, VA State Legislature
1871 - Member, VA House of Delegates
1873 - Proprietor, Rockbridge Baths Sanitarium, Rockbridge Co., VA
1874 - Practiced medicine, Brownsburg, Rockbridge Co., VA
1880 - Practiced medicine, Kerrs Creek, Rockbridge Co., VA
1883 - Claimed the "germs of diphtheria and typhoid were the same." [The germ theory was only slowly being accepted by the medical profession and even when accepted, there was apparently controversy about which microbes caused specific diseases.]
1890 - practiced medicine, Rockbridge Baths, Rockbridge Co., VA
1900 - Practiced medicine, Kerrs Creek, Rockbridge Co., VA
02/04/1901 - Died in his home "of a complication of diseases [including Bright's disease], the chief malady being the effects of paralysis with which he was attacked nearly two years ago", Rockbridge Baths, Rockbridge Co., VA

Note: Washington and Lee University has a large S. B. M. manuscript collection.

Bob Krick and R. E. L. 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.
04/05/2014. Unpublished database.

The following was added by the creator of this memorial:

Source of burial data: Book: Rockbridge County, Virginia Cemeteries, South River and Walker Creek Districts, by the Rockbridge Area Genealogical Society, 1999, page 158.

Died at Rockbridge Baths of Brights Disease; Surgeon in 58th Virginia Infantry, CSA; plus the medical inspector of Army of Northern Virginia.