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Re: South Carolina Medical College

Thanks, Jim.

Here's the original response to Lee's post.

The following men are listed as having served in the Confederate military in A HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN SOUTH CAROLINA 1825-1900, by Joseph Ioor Waring, M.D., (SC Medical Assn., Charleston: 1967):
D. W. BARTON, Asst. Surgeon, 20th SC Infantry
PVT James L. BECKETT, Ward Master, General Hospital No. 1, Summerville, SC
John F. DANIEL, Goodwin'w Regt. (probably 3d SC Militia Infantry, State Troops, commanded by COL Artemas GOODWYN)
R. E. DENNIS, 2d SC Infantry
Wilfred DUPONT, Asst. Surgeon (no organization given)
J. Jesse GOODWYN, Asst. Surgeon, 2d SC Artillery
Edward H. KELLERS, Asst. Surgeon, 1st SC Artillery
James M. MEGGETT, Asst. Surgeon (no organization given)
Franklin J. MOSES, Asst. Surgeon (1LT Franklin Israel Moses, Jr. (1838–1906), Enrolling Officer, Edgefield District, was the son of a prosperous Sumter lawyer and state senator. He entered South Carolina College in 1853, but left before graduating, and became active in state politics. In 1861, he was named Governor Francis W. Pickens’ personal secretary, and at the end of the governor’s term in 1862, he secured an appointment as a second lieutenant in Co. F, 1st SC Regular Infantry. He joined the company in February 1863, but appears to have spent much of his time absent on sick furlough, and was subsequently detailed to recruiting duty (a contemporary later wrote that Moses’ nerves were “not especially suited to the music of war.”) He resigned his commission in the regiment on 11 March 1864, and was then appointed a first lieutenant in the Bureau of Conscription and assigned as enrolling officer for Edgefield District, where he remained for the rest of the war (according to the same contemporary, it was said that for a price Moses as enrolling officer could “get any sort of certificate of disability required.”) In 1866, he resumed his political career and soon aligned himself with the Radical Republicans (or so-called “Scalawags”) who took control of the state during Reconstruction. First serving as Speaker of the House of Representatives and then state Adjutant General, he was ultimately elected governor in 1872. His time in the legislature and term as governor were both marked by blatant corruption, and his administration soon gained national notoriety as a symbol of the wide-spread corruption in the South under Reconstruction. After leaving office in disgrace in 1874, his career and fortunes rapidly declined. His wife divorced him 1878, and members of his family changed their surname to Hanby to avoid his disgrace. He declared bankruptcy and left South Carolina, thereafter holding minor journalistic positions in various northern cities, before settling in Winthrop, MA, where he edited a local newspaper from 1892 to 1895. He died there in a boarding house, unemployed and in poverty, in 1906. Both Moses and his father commonly used the middle initial “J,” probably in resignation to its frequent misquotation as such. Compiled Service Records-SC; and Christine Doyle, “Franklin J. Moses, Jr.,” John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography, Vol. 15, (New York, NY: 1999), pp. 971–972.)
F. L. PARKER, Surgeon (no organization given)
P. S. POSTELL (no rank or organization given)
James Harrington POWE, Summerville, SC Hospital
William Judson PRINGLE, Surgeon, 2d SC Cavalry
Benjamin W. TAYLOR, Medical Director to Cavalry Corps
W. K. TURNER, Navy
John M. WESTMORELAND, Asst. Surgeon
W. H. WYMAN (no rank or organization given)

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