Dr Francis Marion McMillan (1837-1868)

Dr Francis Marion McMillan

Birth

1837

Death

20 Jan 1868 (aged 30–31)

Burial

Shady Rest Cemetery

Ehrhardt, Bamberg County, South Carolina, USA Add to Map

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Father: Capt. Henry William "Mac" McMillan II
Mother: Sophia Delilah Faust
1859 - M.D. degree, The University of the City of New York, Medical Department, NYC (from: SC)
1860 - Practiced medicine, Lexington, Holmes Co., MS
08/10/1861 - Enrolled as 2nd Lt., 25th MS Infantry, Memphis TN, but roll states "not arrived"
- On a roster as Asst. Surgeon, 25th MS Infantry [no date or location]
02/04/1862 - Passed Army Board of Medical Examination for the position of Surgeon, Bowling Green, KY
02/17/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 11/28/1861
03/01/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd Confederate Infantry
04/17/1862 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 02/04/1862
04/17/1862 - Confirmed as Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
04/25/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd Confederate Infantry
05/13/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, Ordered to report to the Department., by Maj. Gen. J. C. Breckinridge [S.O. 164]
05/21/1862 - Detached as Asst. Surgeon, 2nd Confederate Regiment, Army of Mississippi [S. O. 15/5]
06/01/1862 - Surgeon, 2nd Confederate Battalion, camp near Baldwin, MS
10/15/1862 - Surgeon, Mississippi Battalion
02/07/1863 - Assigned to duty with Gen. G. B. Cosby's Brigade, Army of Mississippi
05/31/1863 - Stationed at hospital, Pulaski, TN
07/15/1863 - Surgeon, on duty in Pulaski, TN
08/01/1863 - Surgeon, 42nd TN Infantry, camp near Morton, MS
08/25/1863 - Surgeon, 42nd TN Infantry
04/13/1864 - Surgeon, 42nd TN Infantry, Camp Cummings, AL
06/30/1864 - Surgeon, 42nd TN Infantry, Army of Tennessee
08/01/1864 - Surgeon, 42nd TN Infantry, Gen. W. A. Quarles Brigade, near Atlanta, GA
12/00/1864 - Left with the wounded, Franklin, TN
12/17/1864 - Captured, Franklin, TN
02/19/1865 - Prisoner, Louisville, KY
03/03/1865 - transferred from a prison in Louisville, KY, to Camp Chase, OH
03/05/1865 - Received at Camp Chase, OH
03/07/1865 - As Prisoner of War and Surgeon, 42nd TN Infantry, transferred to Ft. Delaware, DE
03/10/1865 - On a roll of prisoners of war at Fort Delaware, DE, forwarded to Fortress Monroe, VA to be sent through the lines [for exchange]
03/14/1865 - Sent to point of exchange
01/20/1868 - Died, Colston Branch, Barnwell Co., SC (cause: typhoid fever)

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
10/20/2013. Updated 01/26/2023
Unpublished database.

Inscription

K.S.H.T.W.S.S.T. [This symbol on Dr. McMillan's headstone indicates that he completed the cryptic degrees of the York Rite and was a "Royal Arch Mason" in the York Rite Degrees of Freemasonry.]

IN MEMORY
Of
DR. F. M. McMILLAN.
Who died Jany 20th 1868.
Aged 31 Years.

"One of the best of friends is dead.
And they have laid him here;
Tread lightly over his hallowed bed,
For death has made it dear."