1827 - Born, VA
1846 - M.D. degree, Hampden Sidney College, Department of Medicine, Richmond, VA (from: VA) [Note: He signed the matriculation register as Frederick W. Roddey.]
1848-1849 - Demonstrator of Anatomy, Hampden Sidney College, Richmond, VA (Listed in the 1849 Catalogue of Hampden Sidney College as Frederick W. Roddey) [Note: In October, 1927, this college standardized its name as Hampden Sydney College, ending the use of the letter "i" in Sydney.]
1849 - Married, Harriet Newell Jones 1826-1854)
1851 - Member, Medical Society of Virginia
04/28/1852 - Secretary, Medical Convention of Physicians of Virginia, Richmond, VA
09/22/1853 - "RICHMOND HOSPITAL. The undersigned Physicians of the city of Richmond, have established a Hospital, situated on Church Hill, and convenient to all parts of the city. the institution is now open and prepared to accommodate medical and surgical cases. The wards are numerous, spacious, well ventilated, and provided with hot and cold bath. Private accommodations of a superior character, will be furnished when required. Cases of Midwifery will also be received, and due regard paid to both mother and child. The Hospital is visited daily by a least two of the Physicians; and when cases requiring it occur, all will attend in consultation. There is a resident Physician at all times in the house, and kind and experienced nurses are provided. TERMS for Board, Medical Attendance, Surgical Operations, Midwifery, Medicine, Nursery, &c., &c. are:
For White persons . . . . . . . $5.00 a week
For Negroes . . . .. . . . . . . . . .4.00 a week
For extra accommodations …7.00 a week or by contract
JAMES BOLTON, M. D. ROBERT G. CABELL, M. D.
F. H. DEANE, M. D. JAMES BEALE, M. D.
F. MARX, M. D. F. W. RODDEY, M. D.
W. W. S. BUTLER, M. D., Resident Physician
N. B. - No contagious diseases will be admitted
Patients from the country will give a city reference
Address any member of the concern."
(Richmond Enquirer, Richmond, VA, Oct. 11, 1853).
07/03/1854 - Wife, Harriett, died (buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA; FindAGrave #51317207)
1856 - Married, Virginia McCarty Thornton (1834-1908)
06/19/1860 - "DISSOLUTION. - The Concern of RODDEY & STROTHER is this day dissolved by the purchase of R. H. Strother's interest in same by F. W. Roddey, who will in future conduct the business in his own name. All liabilities of the concern of RODDEY & STROTHER will be paid by F. W. Roddey. F. W. RODDEY, R. H. STROTHER (Daily Dispatch, Richmond, VA, July 9, 1860, p. 3, c. 7.)
07/17/1860 - Practiced medicine, Richmond, VA (lived with wife, Virginia, and four children; indexed in the 1860 U. S. Census as "F. W. Roddy")
11/11/1861 - In a letter from the Surgeon General's Office, Richmond, VA, to Surgeon Thomas H. Williams, Medical Director, Army of the Potomac, Manassas VA, "Enclosed please find schedule for Special Train between Manassas and Richmond as now proposed by the RR. Co. and submitted for the consideration of the Office. Inform me whether it meets your views of the necessities of the care; also if Surg F. W. Roddy [sic] has reported to you. Very Respectfully, Yr. Obt. Servt., S. P. Moore, Surg Gen'l"
11/13/1861 - Appointed, Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
11/13/1861 - Ordered to report to the Surgeon General, Richmond, VA, and assigned to duty on railroad trains
11/28/1861 - As Asst. Surgeon, Sick Train, submitted a requisition for painted pails, brooms, dusting brushes, tin cups, stove shovels, hatchets, wood saw, candle lanterns, candlesticks, and stone spittoons, "for the comfort and cleanliness of the sick" on the sick train running between Richmond and Manassas, VA
04/25/1862 - "The following Medical Officers will without delay report to Brigadier General Jno. H. Winder, commanding Department of Henrico for duty at Camp Winder near this city Surgeon F. B. Henderson, Surgeon Lucian Hall, Surgeon Roddey" [S. O. 95/26]
10/22/1862 - In a letter written from Richmond, VA, to Surgeon E. S. Gailliard, Medical Director, Richmond, VA, "Sir, Your communication dated the 8th and Post marked the 20th Inst, was received late last evening upon my return from Gordonsville. In reply to you inquiry, I will say that my commission bears date the 13th of November, 1861,
although for urgent reasons I was assigned to duty by the Surgeon General on the 2nd of the same month. Very Resply, Your Obt. Servt, F. W. Roddey, Asst. Surgn., P. A. C. S."
12/01/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon in charge of sick train, submitted a bill for $20 to a Quartermaster for the services of Joseph Hackstock (free) as a nurse on the sick train from 1st Nov. to 1st Dec., 1, 1862, for 1 mo. at $20/mo.
12/31/1862 - Asst. Surgeon on railroad train treating sick soldiers
01/31/1863 - Asst. Surgeon on railroad train treating sick soldiers
06/12/1863 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 02/17/1863
07/01/1863 - Ordered to report to Surgeon Samuel Meredith in Charge, Academy Hospital, Hanover C. H. VA, to assist in removing patients from that Hospital to Richmond, VA
07/08/1863 - As Surgeon, ordered to report to Surgeon J. J. Gravatt in charge, Gen. Hospital #9, Richmond, VA, for assignment to duty, continuing to perform previous duties on ambulance trains
09/30/1863 - As Surgeon, on duty on an ambulance train
01/23/1864 - "The following-named medical officers will report to the medical director, Army of Northern Virginia, for assignment to duty: Surgeons Blair Burwell, C. D. Rice, F. H. Roddy [sic - F. W. Roddy]." [S.O. 19/6]
01/30/1864 - Confirmed as Surgeon from VA by the Confederate States Senate
02/17/1864 - "Surgeon F. W. Roddy [sic] is relieved from the operation of paragraph VI Special Orders no. 19 Current Series and will report to the Commandant of Conscripts at Raleigh, North Carolina for assignment to duty in the 6th Congressional District." [S. O. 40/2]
10/05/1864 - Chairman, Conscript Examining Board, 2nd Congressional District of North Carolina
01/04/1865 - "Paragraph X, Special Orders No. 306, Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, December 1864, is so modified as to substitute Surgeon F. W. Roddy [sic] in the stead of Surgeon O. A. Crenshaw" [S. O. 2/2] [Note: Paragraph X, Special Orders 306/10 is as follows, "The following named persons disinterested Slaveholders are hereby appointed under Paragraph VIII General Orders No. 86 Adjutant and Inspector Generals Office, current series, a Board for the appointment and ascertainment of hire of slaves already employed under Act 17d February 1864, and now in service with the Army of Northern Virginia without previous appraisement or ascertainment or special contract.. . . Surgeon O. A. Crenshaw P. A. C. S. will act with the Board, and make a careful Medical Examination of each negro before appraisement. the members of the Board and Surgeon Crenshaw will report to Brigadier General W. H. Stevens, Chief Engineer, Army of Northern Virginia, who will designate the time and place for the assembling of the Board.
04/02/1865 - As Surgeon, ordered to report to Surgeon W. A. Thom, in charge of Division 4, Jackson Hospital, Richmond, VA, for assignment to duty
04/03/1865 - Captured by U. S. Army in a hospital, Richmond, VA, "Taken the oath"
06/00/1865 - Died of "some stomach trouble contracted during the war", Richmond, VA, (buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA; FindAGrave #93516281) [Source of date of death, place of death, and cause of death: Virginia Confederate Widow's Pension for Virginia M. Roddey, application #135, pension # 8606.]
08/18/1870 - Widow, Virginia, lived in Madison Ward, Richmond, VA, with two daughters (indexed in the 1870 U. S. Census as Virginia Roddey)
04/12/1905 - Widow, Virginia, applied for a Confederate Widow's Pension in Richmond, Virginia - application #135
09/01/1906 - Widow's pension application #135 approved and pension #8606 granted
03/13/1908 - Widow, Virginia, died in Richmond, VA (buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA; FindAGrave #93516282)
Jeff Burden 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.
03/17/2023. Unpublished database.