Charles:

I am so glad when people such as you fleece out the bare-bones list of names, and it was my hope that people would do so when I posted the list. I copied the list of graduates of the S.C. Medical College from its first graduating class in 1825 through 1899, from a history of the College, and intend to post several other pre-war classes. Most of those men -- and they were all men at that time -- undoubtedly served the Confederacy in some capacity. Although I do not have the catalogue to determine what home address the men gave, a substantial minority were from States in the South other than South Carolina.

It was certainly one of the premier medical schools in the nation just before the war, attracting students from all over the South. It appears that the school graduated 103 physicians in the Class of 1852; 46 in 1853; 79 in 1854; 79 in 1855; 82 in 1858; 92 in 1857; 82 in 1858; 74 in 1859; a high of 114 in 1860; and 94 in 1861.

Classes were suspended from March, 1861, until November, 1865. Few statistics starkly demonstrate the prostrate condition of postwar South Carolina than the puny size of the graduating Medical School classes postwar. During the early 1870's, the school virtually ceased to function. The size of the graduating classes postwar was as follows: 13 in 1866; 31 in 1867; 27 in 1868; 14 in 1869; 10 in 1870; 6 in 1871; 2 in 1872; 4 in 1873; 27 in 1874; 18 in 1875; 27 in 1876; 18 in 1877; 20 in 1878; 23 in 1879; 21 in 1880; and 30 in 1881. Except for the 31-physician strong class of 1867, swollen in part by the returning veterans who had deferred their professional plans during the war, the Class of 1881 at 30 was the largest class through 1899. And only two of those were as large as 25, the number of graduates in the classes of 1889 and 1897. And some were turly small; the graduating classes of 1892 and 1893 only had 12 graduates each; the Class of 1898 only 15; and the Class of 1891 had but 15. The effects of the War in denuding the State of capital direclty affected the ability to provide health care to the citizens of the State for generations to come.