Medical Histories of Confederate Generals by Jack D. Welsh M.D

Author:Jack D. Welsh, M.D. [Jack D. Welsh, M.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Medical, History
ISBN: 9780873386494
Google: 1X1evZu45RcC
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 1999-07-15T16:08:13+00:00

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JOHN MCCAUSLAND • Born September 15, 1836, at St. Louis, Missouri. Teaching at the start of the war, he was commissioned colonel of the 36th Virginia in 1861. His promotion to brigadier general was from May 1864. He traveled for two years after the war and then settled on a large acreage in West Virginia. McCausland died January 25, 1927, in Mason County, West Virginia, and was buried at Henderson, West Virginia.1

DEATH CERTIFICATE: Cause of death, mitral insufficiency.

1. Death certificate.

WILLIAM MCCOMB • Born November 21, 1828, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.1 He left his business and enlisted as a private in the 14th Tennessee Infantry at the start of the war. A slight wound received at Cold Harbor on June 27, 1862, did not prevent him from participating in the Battle of Frayser’s Farm a few days later. He was severely wounded at Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862, yet by December 10 he was listed as in command. At the Battle of Chancellorsville, on May 3, 1863, McComb was wounded again. Listed as in command of Cadmus M. Wilcox’s brigade on August 31, 1863, he took part in the Overland campaign of 1864 and the siege of Petersburg. McComb passed through grades and his promotion as brigadier general ranked from January 1865. He spent the last years of his life farming in Virginia and died on July 21, 1918, near Gordonsville.2 He was buried in Mechanicsville Cemetery at Boswells, Virginia.

DEATH CERTIFICATE: Cause of death, atherosclerosis.

1. Death certificate.

2. OR, vol. 19, pt. 1:1001; vol. 21:1074; vol. 25, pt. 1:926, 933; vol. 29, pt. 2:685; Head, Sixteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers, 358; CMH 8:302, Tenn.

JOHN PORTER MCCOWN • Born August 19, 1815, in Rutherford County, Tennessee. He graduated from USMA in 1840. Served in the Florida and Mexican wars. McCown left the United States Army in May 1861 and joined Confederate service as colonel of the Tennessee Artillery Corps. His promotion to brigadier general followed in October 1861 and to major general from March 1862. Returning home after the war, he taught school in Tennessee and then moved to a farm in Arkansas. He died January 22, 1879, at Little Rock and was buried in the City Cemetery at Magnolia, Arkansas.

DEATH CERTIFICATE: NAD

BEN MCCULLOCH • Born November 11, 1811, in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Served in the Mexican War. As a boy, his right wrist was bitten by a young bear, which McCulloch killed with a butcher knife. There is no evidence that there was any permanent damage to his arm. In 1835 he learned of David Crockett’s expedition and wanted to join up. However, he arrived too late. He continued alone as far as the Brazos River, where, in January 1836, he became ill with the measles and did not recover for several weeks. In 1839 he had a duel using rifles at forty paces with Col. Reuben Ross and was wounded in the upper portion of the right arm. Ross, an experienced duelist, shot first; McCulloch did not fire. McCulloch carried his arm in a sling for many months and never fully regained its use.

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