Lee:

Here's some information on J. Dickson BRUNS:
Surgeon John Dickson Bruns (1836–1883), Hospital Board of Examiners for Furloughs and Discharges, Charleston, SC, was graduated from the College of Charleston in 1854, and went on to receive his medical degree from the Medical College of South Carolina. He edited the Charleston Medical Journal until 1861, and worked as a civilian contract surgeon at Roper Hospital in Charleston prior to receiving an appointment as an army surgeon on 1 June 1864, with date of rank from 14 December 1863. On 17 December 1863, he was ordered to establish and command the 1st Virginia Hospital at the Morris Street School at the corner of Smith and Morris Streets in Charleston. After this hospital was closed on 13 May 1864, he was assigned to command of the 1st Georgia Hospital at the corner of King and Vanderhorst Streets in Charleston. Bruns was also a poet of some note, and is probably best known in this regard for his Civil War poem,”The Foe at the Gates,” written in 1865. Sources: Coastal Carolina University, Department of English, “200 Years of Palmetto Poets,” <http://www.coastal.edu/english/poets/bruns.html>, 2003; National Archives and Records Administration, Compiled Service Records of Confederate General and Staff Officers and Non-Regimental Enlisted Men, 1861–1865, (Microfilm No. 331); and John M. Carroll, List of Staff Officers of the Confederate States Army, 1861–1865, (Mattituck, NY: 1983), p. 22.

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Fred