Father: Dr. John Edward Dennis
Mother: Adeline Elizabeth Muldrow
1850 - Lived, Sumter District, SC
1856 - Attended, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1858 - M.D. degree, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (from: Sumter Co, SC; preceptor: Dr. T. Wilson)
1859 - Student, New York University School of Analytical and Practical Chemistry
1860 - Practiced medicine, Lynchburgh, Sumter Co, SC
04/08/1861 - Enlisted, 2nd SC Infantry (Palmetto), Sumter Co, SC
05/23/1861 - Mustered in, 2nd SC Infantry (Palmetto), Camp Davis near Richmond, VA
06/25/1862 - Patient, Episcopal Church Hospital, Williamsburg, VA (bronchitis)
07/17/1862 - Returned to duty as Pvt., Co D, 2nd SC Infantry
06/00/1863 - Pvt., Co. D, 2nd SC Infantry
03/01/1864 - Substitute furnished (E. Daniels)
04/23/1864 - "Assistant Surgeon Robert E. Dennis will report without delay to Surgeon [Lafayette] Guild, medical director, Army [of] Northern Virginia for assignment."
[S.O. 95/50]
05/25/1864 - Ordered to report to the Medical Director, 1st Army Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, for duty
07/02/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 3rd GA Battalion Sharpshooters
11/03/1864 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 04/05/1864
12/28/1864 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
02/16/1865 - Left camp near Richmond, VA with leave as Asst. Surgeon, 3rd GA Battalion Sharpshooters, Army of Northern Virginia
04/09/1865 - Paroled, Appomattox, VA, as Asst. Surgeon, 3rd GA Battalion Sharpshooters, near Richmond, VA
02/00/1865 - Married, Mary Graves Green (she died in 1901)
1870,1874,1877,1880,1886,1890 - Practiced medicine, Bishopville, Sumter Co, SC
1900 - Physician and farmer, Bishopville Township, Sumter Co, SC
11/28/1904 - Died, Bishopville, Lee Co., SC

Note: In 1902, the section of Sumter Co., SC, in which Bishopville was located, became part of Lee Co. SC.

Significant input to this biography was provided by Anna O'Quinn Richter and Robert Krick.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
05/24/2013. Unpublished database.