John Gibson Dudley – Confederate Surgeon
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.