E. S. Gaillard, M.D., CSA
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GAILLARD, Edwin
Samuel
From: Hambrecht, F. T. , Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical
capacity. 02/11/2010. Unpublished database
1/16/1827 - Born,
Charleston District, SC
1845
- Graduated, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
1849 - Received first
smallpox vaccination - "took"
1850 - Planter, St. Johns
Berkely Parish, Charleston District, SC
1854 - M.D. - Medical
College of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (from St. John's, SC before
medical school; preceptor - Dr. E. Horlbeck; thesis - "On inter and
bilious remittent fevers with their relations to the ozone"
1854 - Practiced medicine
in Florida
1856 - Marriage 1, Jane
Marshall Thomas
1857
- Practiced medicine in NY
1860 - Practiced medicine
in Ward 18, District 2, New York City, NY
03/00/1861 - Practiced medicine in
Baltimore, Maryland
06/24/1861 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon,
to report to 1st Maryland Infantry
07/03/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 1st
Maryland Infantry, hospital duty, Winchester, VA
07/13/1861 - Ordered to report to
Gen. J.E. Johnston, Winchester, VA
08/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 1st MD
Infantry, Fairfax Station, VA
09/09/1861 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon,
Prov. Army of the C.S. States (PACS)
09/23/1861 - Ordered to be Medical
Director for Gen. Gustavus Woodson Smith
10/01/1861 - Appointed Medical
Director, 2nd Corps, Army of the Potomac (Gen. G. W. Smith), Manassas
Junction, VA
12/07/1861 - Detailed as a member of
the Army Medical Board, Manassas, VA
01/06/1862 - Ordered to inspect the
South Carolina Hospital, Warren Springs, Warren Co, VA
03/05/1862 - Medical Director, 1st
Division (Gen. G W Smith), Army of the Potomac, Aquia District
04/00/1862 - Ordered to the Peninsula
with Gen. G. W. Smith's Command
05/29/1862 - Sustained gun shot wound
to right arm requiring amputation, Battle of Seven Pines
09/15/1862 - Assigned to duty as
Medical Director of the Gen. G. W. Smith's department, including all
general hospitals
12/16/1862 - Patient, Private House,
sent to Small Pox Hospital, Richmond, VA (suffering from
varioloid)
01/01/1863 - Returned to duty
04/29/1863 - Medical Inspector -
ordered to inspect the general hospitals at Gordonsville,
Charlottesville, Staunton, Harrisonburg, Lexington, Buchanan,
Scottsville, Palmyra, and Huguenot Springs
07/18/1863 - Temporarily assigned to
duty inspecting Medical Purveying Departments in Virginia and Tennessee
08/27/1863 - Ordered to inspect
general hospitals in SC, GA, FL & AL
02/01/1865 - Signs as Surgeon and
Medical Inspector
05/09/1865 - Paroled as Asst.
Surgeon, Meridian, MS
05/1865
- Lived, Richmond, VA
10/05/1865 - Marriage 2, Mary
Elizabeth Gibson, Richmond, VA
01/1866
- Founded the Richmond Medical Journal, Richmond, VA
1867 - President, Richmond
Academy of Medicine, Richmond, VA
06/1867
- Professor, General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy, Medical
College of
Virginia, Richmond, VA
05/1868
- Moved to Louisville, KY
05/1868
- Professor, General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy, Kentucky
School of
Medicine, Louisville, KY
1868 - Founded, Richmond
and Louisville Medical Journal, Louisville, KY
12/1868
- President, Medico-Chirurgical Society of Louisville, Louisville, KY
08/1869
- Professor, Principles and Practice of Medicine and General Pathology,
Louisville Medical College, Louisville, KY
1870 - Practiced medicine,
Louisville, Jefferson Co, KY
07//1874 -
Founded the American Medical Weekly
1874 - Dean, Louisville
Medical College, Louisville, KY
1885 - Insane
02/02/1885 - Died, Ocean Beach,
Monmouth Co, NJ (died of fatty degeneration of the liver; (buried, Mt.
Prospect Cem., near Asbury Park, Monmouth Co, NJ)
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We regret to announce the death of Dr. Gaillard at his home at Ocean
Beach, N.J., February, 1885. Dr. Gaillard was born in Charleston, S.C.,
January 6th, 1827; graduated from the University of South Carolina in
December, 1845, and from the South Carolina
Medical College at Charleston in 1854.
He engaged in the practice of
medicine until the breaking out of the civil war, at which time he
joined the Confederate Army and served until the war closed. At the
close of the war Dr. Gaillard practiced his profession in Richmond for
three years, afterward moving to Louisville,
Ky.
In 1861 Dr. Gaillard received the Fiske Fund prize, and in 1865 the
prize of the Georgia Medical Association.
A year later he founded the Richmond
Medical Journal, which he moved to
Louisville in 1868, publishing it under
the title of the Richmond and
Louisville Medical Journal. In 1874 he established the
American Medical Weekly,
having the year previously received from the University of North
Carolina the degrees of A.M. and LL. D. A few years ago he removed his
journal and residence to New York, where he published Gaillards
Medical Journal. Dr.
Gaillard was a member of the various Louisville
medical societies, was a correspondent of the Gynecological
Society of Boston, the Louisville
Obstetrical Society, an honorary member of the South Carolina
Medical Association, and an honorary and
corresponding member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Arkansas.
Dr. Gaillard was elected President of the Richmond Academy of Medicine
in 1867, President of the Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1868, and
President of the American Mutual Benefit Association of Physicians in
1875. He was made Dean of the
Louisville Medical College at its
organization, and was also Dean of the Kentucky School of Medicine. Dr.
Gaillard was twice married; first to a daughter of the Rev. Edward
Thomas, of Charleston, who died leaving no children, and afterward, in
1865, to a daughter of Prof. C. B. Gibson, of the University of
Maryland.
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E. S. Gaillard, M. D., editor of the
Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal, professor of general
pathology and pathological anatomy in the Kentucky School of Medicine"
Medical Topographical of Florida, E. S. Gaillard, M. D.,
Charleston Medical Journal and Review, vol. XI, January,
1856. The Surgeon General's Office Library.
(The personal edited research
notes of Michael Echols, the source of which may or
may not be completely documented)
