Surgeon Claudius Henry Mastin, Sr./CSA

Father: Capt. Francis Turner Mastin Mother: Ann Elizabeth Caroline LeVert - Attended Greenville Academy, Huntsville, AL 1844 - Attended, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 1849 - M.D. degree, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (from: AL; preceptor: Dr. John Y. Bassett; thesis: Cynanche Trachealis [diphtheria]%29 09/20/1849 - Married, Mary Eliza McDowell 1850 - Attended lectures at the University of France, the Royal College of Surgeons [England], and the University of Edinburgh [Scotland] 1860 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co, AL 09/14/1861 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, from AL 11/14/1861 - Ordered to report to Gen. Leonidas Polk for assignment to hospital duty in Memphis, TN 12/02/1861 - Ordered to assume the duties of Supervisor of Hospitals, Memphis, TN 03/11/1862 - Superintendent of [Confederate] Hospitals, Memphis, TN 03/11/1862 - Surgeon-in-charge, Memphis, TN 03/26/1862 - Appointed Medical Director for Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk, 1st Grand Division, Army of Mississippi, Corinth, MS 06/11/1862 - Tenders resignation on account of disability 06/13/1862 - Underwent a medical examination by Surgeon James Fountain Heustis. Dr. Mastin was found to be suffering from prolapsus ani (prolapsed anus) and painful hemorrhoids. Dr. Heustis recommended that Dr. Mastin's resignation be accepted. 08/01/1862 - Resignation accepted to take effect 06/11/1862 05/05/1863 - Served on Board of Examining Surgeons for the 1st Congressional District of Alabama 12/02/1863 - Surgeon examining conscripts, 1st Congressional District, District of AL, Marion, AL 08/06/1864 - Purchased an ambulance 09/07/1864 - Stationed, Mobile, AL 1870,1874 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co, AL 1875 - LL.D. degree [honorary] conferred by the University of Pennsylvania 1876 - Trustee, Pan-American Medical Congress - One of the founders of the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons - Member, Boston Gynecological Society - Member, American Association of Andrology and Syphilology - Member, Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association 1880 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co, AL 1880 - One of the organizers of the American Surgical Association 1883-84 - Second Vice President, American Surgical Association 1889-90 - First Vice President, American Surgical Association 1890 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co, AL 1890-91 - President, American Surgical Association 1893,1896 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co, AL 10/03/1898 - Died, Mobile, Mobile Co, AL (buried: Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Madison Co, AL)

This biographical sketch is from: Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical register of physicians who served the Confederacy in a medical capacity. Updated 03/11/2013.