RECOLLECTIONS OF A REBEL SURGEON
DR. F.E. DANIEL
Hardcover
(Von Boeckmann, SCHUTZ & CO., March 15, 1899)
Ferdinand Eugene Daniel, physician and medical journalist, the son of R. W. T. and Hester Jordan (Adams) Daniel, was born in Emporia, Greenville County, Virginia, on July 18, 1839. He was educated at Vicksburg, Mississippi, where his family moved in 1845, and read law for a time before he turned to medicine at Jackson, Mississippi, where his family settled in 1852. He enlisted in the Confederate Army in May 1861 at Jackson as a private in Company K, Eighteenth Mississippi Infantry, Jones's Division, Beauregard's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, and served at the first battle of Bull Run. He left the service under President Jefferson Davis's order to release young men studying medicine, completed his medical degree at the New Orleans School of Medicine, and after graduation in 1862 was commissioned a major by Secretary of War George W. Randolph. During the war he participated as a surgeon in the battles of Perryville and Mumfordsville and was in charge of hospitals at Chattanooga, Tennessee; Marietta, Kingston, and Covington, Georgia; and Lauderdale, Mississippi.