John Gibson Dudley – Confederate Surgeon

Surgeon John Gibson Dudley; Courtesy of F. Terry Hambrecht, M.D.
Surgeon John Gibson Dudley; Courtesy of F. Terry Hambrecht, M.D.

Born: March 3, 1827, in Bennettsville, South   Carolina

Served: Surgeon-in-Charge at various   hospitals, 1861 to 1865

Died:  September 17, 1866, in Marion, South   Carolina

Dudley received his medical degree in South Carolina in 1848, and after a brief practice spent a year at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1851. He entered the Confederate Army in 1861 as Assistant Surgeon-in-Charge of a division hospital. He spent the rest of the war in similar capacities around Richmond, ending in 1865 at Winder Hospital. He died soon after the war at age 39.

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