Dr. Samuel Preston Moore
Born: September 16, 1813
Birthplace: Charleston, South Carolina
Father: Stephen West Moore 1780 – 1824
(Buried: First Baptist Churchyard, Charleston, South Carolina)
Mother: Eleanor Scriven Gilbert 1775 – 1858
(Buried: First Baptist Churchyard, Charleston, South Carolina)
Wife: Mary Augusta Brown 1828 – 1912
(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)
Children:
Lizzie Moore Bayne 1852 – 1923
(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)
Education:
1835: Graduated from Medical College of South Carolina
Occupation before War:
1835: Medical Doctor in Little Rock, Arkansas
1835 – 1861: Served in United States Army Medical Corps as Major
1846 – 1848: Surgeon during the Mexican – American War
1861: Resigned from United States Army on February 25th
1861: Medical Doctor in Little Rock, Arkansas
Civil War Career:
1861 – 1865: Surgeon General for the Confederate Army Medical Dept.
Set up a Reserve Surgical Corps in the Confederate Army
Improved the field Ambulance Corps in Confederate Army
Organizer of Examination System to identify untrained Physicians
1864: Established Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal
Founder of Association of Army & Naval Surgeons of the Confederacy
1861 – 1865: Brigadier General in the Confederate Army
Occupation after War:
1865 – 1899: Medical Doctor in Richmond, Virginia
1877 – 1883: Member of Richmond, Virginia School Board
Died: May 31, 1889
Place of Death: Richmond, Virginia
Age at time of Death: 75 years old
Burial Place: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia
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