The Indian Territory in the Civil War Message Board

Dr. Walter Thompson Adair

While doing some further research on Price's Retreat, looking for graves and cemeteries, I came across this "memorial" which I wish to share:

Dr. Walter Thompson Adair (younger brother of Col. William Penn Adair)

12/04/1861 - Surgeon, Watie's Regiment Cherokee Mounted Volunteers (also known as 1st Regiment Cherokee Mounted Volunteers; as the 2nd Regiment Cherokee Mounted Rifles, Arkansas, and as the 1st Regiment Cherokee Mounted Rifles or Riflemen)
04/03/1862 - Father, George, died, Saline District, Cherokee Nation West, Indian Territory
04/15/1863 - Passed Confederate Army Board of Medical Examination for the position of surgeon
04/15/1863 - Assigned to duty as Surgeon, 2nd Cherokee Regt., 1st Indian Brigade, Indian Division, District of Indian Territory
04/16/1863 - Nominated as Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, by Jefferson Davis, President, Confederate States of America
04/16/1863 - Relieved Doctors White and Colley [probably Asst. Surgeon Robert White and Surgeon Thomas Milton Colley] as Surgeon, 2nd Cherokee Mounted Volunteers
06/00/1863 - Passed Confederate Army Board of Medical Examination, Ft. Smith, AR
06/30/1863 - Surgeon, 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles, Camp Steele [probably near Ft. Smith, AR]
11/00/1863 - Surgeon, 2nd Cherokee Regt., District of Indian Territory, Trans-Mississippi Dept., in the field
02/02/1864 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 04/16/1863
02/02/1864 - Confirmed as Surgeon from the Cherokee Nation by the Confederate States Senate
05/20/1864 - Signed letter to Gen. Stand Watie as "Brig. Surgeon"
07/27/1864 - Brigade Surgeon, First Indian Brigade, Gen. D. H. Cooper's Division, District of Indian Territory, Camp Kincaid, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
03/00/1865 - Chief Surgeon [or Post Surgeon], 1st Division (Gen. D. H. Cooper's), District of Indian Territory, Boggy Depot, Cherokee Nation

Source:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=159612695