Surgeon John Thomson Darby, CSA

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Father: Artemus Thomson Darby (1806-1878) Mother: Margaret Cantey Thomson (1818-1891) - Attended, Mt. Zion Academy, Winnsboro, SC - Attended South Carolina College 1856-57 - Attended the Medical College of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 1858 - M.D. degree, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (from: SC; thesis: "The Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology of the Supra Renal Capsules") - Interned, St. Joseph Hospital, and Philadelphia Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 06/12/1861 - Mustered in as Surgeon, Hampton Legion 07/00/1861 - Surgeon, Hampton Legion [Confederate unit from SC], Bacon Race Church, Prince William Co, VA 12/31/1861 - Surgeon, Hampton Legion, Occoquan River, VA 01/00/1862 - Surgeon, Hampton Legion, Camp Wigfall on the Occoquan River, VA 02/17/1862 - Appointed Surgeon, Confederate States Army, to rank from 06/11/1861 02/17/1862 - Ordered to report to the Hampton Legion as Surgeon 02/26/1862 - Senior Surgeon of Forces on the Occoquan River, VA, Col. W. Hampton commanding 02/28/1862 - Senior Surgeon, Col. Hampton's Cavalry, Bacon Race Church, VA 04/06/1862 - Senior Surgeon of Forces on the Occoquan River, VA 05/31/1862 - Acting Chief Surgeon, Gen. G. W. Smith's Division, Battle of Fair Oaks, VA 09/00/1862 - Chief Surgeon, Gen. J. B. Hood's Division, Gen. J. Longstreet's Corps, Battles of Boonsborough [MD] & Sharpsburg [MD] 04/04/1863 - Confirmed as Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate 09/01/1863 - Chief Surgeon, Gen. J. B. Hood's Division, Fredericksburg, VA 11/11/1863 - Chief Surgeon, Gen. J. B. Hood's Division, Richmond, VA 11/24/1863 - Ordered to Paris, France, "to carry into effect instructions which he has received from the Secretary of War" - he was sent to Europe to procure artificial limbs for Confederate amputees [S.O. 279/15] 04/18/1864 - Reported arrival in Richmond after fulfilling the orders given in S.O. 279 04/21/1864 - Ordered to report to Gen. J. E. Johnston, Dalton, GA, for duty with Gen. J. B. Hood [S.O. 93/29] 05/22/1864 - Lt. Gen. J. B. Hood requested permission by telegram to have Dr. Darby for duty as Medical Director of his Corps 05/31/1864 - Served on Gen. J. B. Hood's staff 07/07/1864 - Appointed Medical Director and assigned to Lt. Gen. A. P. Stewart's Corps (late Lt. Gen. Polk's Corps), Army of Tennessee [S.O. 158/4] 07/18/1864 - Announced as Medical Director, Army of Mississippi 07/28/1864 - Medical Director, Atlanta, GA 08/01/1864 - Medical Director, Lt. Gen. A. P. Stewart's Corps, Atlanta, GA 09/04/1864 - Ordered "to proceed to Richmond on public business" 10/01/1864 - Married, Mary Cantey Preston, Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbia, SC 11/04/1864 - "Will resume his duties as Medical Director, Stewart's Corps, relieving Surgeon [Alfred Hunter] Voorhies, who will return to his position as Acting Inspector, Army of Tennessee" 04/26/1865 - Medical Director, Gen. A. P. Stewart's Corps, Army of Tennessee 05/01/1865 - Paroled, Greensboro, NC 1866 - Volunteer surgeon, Austro-Prussian War, Prussian Army 1868 - Chairman, Department of Anatomy and Surgery, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 1870 - Practiced medicine, Columbia, Richland Co, SC 1873 - Professor of Surgical Anatomy, University of New York, New York City, NY 1874 - Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of New York, NY 06/09/1879 - Died, New York, NY

This biographical sketch is from: Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical register of physicians who served the Confederacy in a medical capacity. Updated 01/09/2013. Updated 01/25/2018. Unpublished database.

Darby, John T. BATTLE UNIT NAME: Infantry Regiment, Hampton Legion, South Carolina SIDE: Confederacy COMPANY: F&S SOLDIER'S RANK IN: Major/Surgeon SOLDIER'S RANK OUT: Major/Surgeon ALTERNATE NAME: FILM NUMBER: M381 ROLL 8 PLAQUE NUMBER: NOTES: none