Dr. James Green Campbell, (CSA)

Dr. James Green Campbell

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Father: Dr. Marsden Campbell, II (1812-1857)
Mother: Mary Bradley Green (1816-1905)
10/19/1850 - Attending and living at Thomas Rand Institution, St. Landry Parish, LA, with other students
12/08/1857 - Father, Marsden, died in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA. Buried: Myrtle Grove Cemetery, Opelousas; Find-A-Grave # 94093537 (see above)
07/09/1860- Medical student, Ward 3, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA (living with six other medical students; indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as James G. Campbell)
1861 - M.D. Degree, Medical Department of the University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA
03/13/1861 - "Assistant Surgeon J.G. Campbell, will in addition to the duty assigned to him in par. II of Special Orders No. 13, current series from these Head Quarters, render also the necessary professional services at the rendezvous of Captain C M. Bradford Infantry. By order of Colonel S. M. Westmore" [S.O. # 16, Head Quarters, Army of LA] Note: Col. S.M. Westmore was the Col. of the LA Militia Confederate Guards Regiment.
05/08/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, Army of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA
08/16/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 08/01/1862
09/26/1862 - Confirmed as an Asst. Surgeon from LA by the Confederate States Senate
08/31/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd LA Cavalry
06/03/1865 - Paroled by the U.S. Army, Alexandria, LA
06/00/1865 - Married, Lucy Maxim Taylor (1839-1915) St. Landry Parish, LA
12/09/1866 - Published a professional advertisement in a Opelousa, LA, indicating that he had started a medical practice in Grand Cotean, St. Landry Parish, LA, on or about Sept. 22, 1866.
10/09/1869 - Published an advertisement for the sale of Scuppernong Grape Roots
06/03/1870 - Practiced medicine, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA (lived with wife, Lucy, and two children; indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as "G. J. Green")
03/18/1872 - Appointed by the Police Jury of St. Landry Parish, LA, to be a commissioner to sell work to have a bridge repaired to the lowest bidder. [The Opelousas Journal, Opelousas, LA, March 28, 1872.].
09/02/1873 - Paid $15 by the Police Jury of St. Landry Parish, LA, for a post mortem examination of one body
08/19/1878 - As a Member, St. Landry Parish [LA] Board of Health, made a motion that was approved "that should a case of yellow fever occur in a house in the parish of St. Landry, that the same shall be left open night and day for three days, and sprinkled with a solution of carbolic acid, on part to fifteen parts of water, and all bedding and clothing used by the patient to be burned or thoroughly cleaned by boiling" [St. Landry Democrat (1878) St. Landry Parish, LA, Aug. 24th, 1878, p. 1, c. 2.]
07/28/1879 - While assisting a coroner's jury, examined a man in Washington, St. Landry Parish, LA, who was shot through the center of his forehead and pronounced him to be dead [New Orleans Democrat (1879) New Orleans, LA, July 28th, 1879.]
08/04/1879 - As a member of the Board of Health of St. Landry Parish, LA, in agreement with the other members, "resolved that in the opinion of the board there is no necessity for the present to quarantine the parish [because of yellow fever]." [Opelousas Courier, Opelousas, LA, August 9, 1879, p. 2, c. 4.]
06/01/1880 - Practiced medicine, 5th Ward, St. Landry Parish, LA (living with wife, L. M., two sons, and a sister; indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as J. G. Campbell)
05/08/1882 - Died after a lingering illness, Washington, St. Landry Parish, LA (buried: Myrtle Grove Cemetery, Opelousas; FindAGrave #219889541)
12/05/1905 - Mother, Mary, died in Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA (buried: Myrtle Grove Cemetery, Opelousas; FindAGrave #94093636)
07/13/1915 - Widow, Lucy, died in Houma, Terrebonne Parish, LA

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

• Residence: 1880 - 5th Ward, St Landry, Louisiana, United States
  • Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Jan 10 2019, 15:06:02 UTC