Frank Ramsay
| Frank Ramsay MD, MA | |||||||
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| Born | 1821 | ||||||
| Died | 1884 | ||||||
| Residence | Memphis Tennessee | ||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||
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Dr Frank Alexander Ramsey
Birth: Apr. 7, 1821
Knox County
Tennessee, USA Death: May 26, 1884
Knoxville
Knox County
Tennessee, USA
Father: Francis Alexander Ramsey
Mother: Margaret Christian Russell
~1840 - A.M. degree, East Tennessee University, Knoxville, TN
03/10/1842 - M.D. degree, Transylvania University Medical Department, Lexington, KY (thesis: "An inaugural dissertation on an epidemic which raged in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1838"
06/02/1842 - Married, Anna Maria Breck (see died in 1868)
1849-1850 - Served on the Board of Aldermen, Knoxville, Knox Co., TN
1850 - Practiced medicine, Knoxville, TN
1854 - Published, "Letter Addressed to the Mayor and Alderman of the City of Knoxville [TN]" Kinsloe & Brother, Knoxville, TN
1860 - Practiced medicine, Knox Co., TN
09/06/1861 - Hospital Surgeon, Knoxville, TN
09/11/ 1861 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 07/31/1861
09/11/1861 - Surgeon at a Confederate General Hospital
11/30/1861 - Surgeon, Knoxville, TN
01/02/1862 - Medical Director, Gen. G. B. Crittenden's command
01/19/1862 - Medical Director, Gen. G. B. Crittenden's command
02/07/1862 - Relieved from duty with Gen. G. B. Crittenden's command and ordered to
report to the commanding officer at Knoxville, TN [S.O. 31/8]
03/01/1862 - Medical Director, Knoxville, TN
09/08/1862 - "Surgeon Frank A. Ramsey is assigned to duty as medical director of the command of Major-General McCown, and will report accordingly to Major-General E. K. Smith, commanding Department of East Tennessee S.O. 210/20]
10/01/1862 - "An Army Medical Board will convene at Knoxville, Tenn., for the examination of medical officers in the Department of East Tennessee to consist of the following officers: ....Surgeon F. A. Ramsey..." [S.O. 229/27]
10/16/1862 - Surgeon & Medical Director, Department of East Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Gen. E. K. Smith, commanding
11/04/1862 - Surgeon & Medical Director, Department of East Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Gen. S. Jones, commanding
12/13/1862 - "...the army medical board convened at Knoxville, Tenn. The board will consist of the following members: Surgeons F. A. Ramsay [Ramsey]...." [S.O. 292-14]
12/17/1862 - Army Medical Board dissolved [S.O. 295/10]
12/22/1862 - "Surgeon F. A. Ramsay [Ramsey] is assigned to duty as medical inspector, and is placed in charge (under the medical director of the department) of the hospitals in East Tennessee north of Cleveland." [S.O. 299/15]
02/19/1863 - "Surgeon F. A. Ramsay [Ramsey] will proceed without delay to Knoxville, Tenn., and report to Brigadier General D. S. Donelson, commanding Department of East Tennessee, for assignment to duty as medical director of that department." by command of the Sec. of War [S.O. 43/1 or S.O. 42/7]
03/01/1863 - Surgeon, Knoxville, TN
03/00/1863 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Department of East Tennessee, Gen. D. S. Donelson, commanding
04/01/1863 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Knoxville, TN
04/04/1863 - Confirmed as Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
04/13/1863 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Department of East Tennessee, Gen. W. G. M. Davis, commanding
04/24/1863 - Medical Director, Army of East Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
05/01/1863 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Department of East Tennessee, Gen. D. H. Maury, commanding
05/22/1863 - "Surgeon F. A. Ramsay [Ramsey,] medical director, &c., will direct two medical officers to report to Colonel E. D. Black [Blake,] commandant, &c., to examine conscripts." [S.O. 122/7]
07/00/1863 - Surgeon, Knoxville, TN
07/11/1863 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Department of East Tennessee, Gen. S. B. Buckner, commanding
08/01/1863 - Surgeon, Knoxville, TN
08/10/1863 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Department of East Tennessee, Gen. S. B. Buckner, commanding
08/25/1863 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Knoxville, TN
09/23/1863 - Ordered to resume his position as Medical Director of the Department of East Tennessee and to repair to Abingdon, VA, by Maj. Gen. S .B. Buckner
10/03/1863 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Abingdon, VA
11/30/1863 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Confederate Army, Department of East Tennessee, Headquarters, Abingdon, VA
01/11/1864 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Department of East Tennessee
02/02/1864 - "Surgeon F. A. Ramsey is assigned to duty as Medical Director of Hospitals for the Army in East Tennessee." [S.O. 27/5]
02/27/1864 - Given approval by Confederate Surgeon General Samuel Preston Moore "to remove your Office and Quarters as the military exigencies may require to points most eligible."
03/01/1864 - Surgeon, Abingdon, VA
03/19/1864 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Abingdon, VA
05/14/1864 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Abingdon, VA
07/15/1864 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Abingdon, VA
08/09/1864 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Bristol, TN
09/11/1864 - Stationed, Bristol, TN, as Medical Director, Dept. of East TN Hospitals
11/02/1864 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Bristol, TN
12/12/1864 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Bristol, TN
12/14/1864 - Captured, Bristol, TN
01/01/1865 - An inspection report of hospitals in the Department of East Tennessee and South Western Virginia states that Dr. Ramsey was "carried off" from
Bristol, TN, to Knoxville [TN] as a prisoner of war by the enemy on December 14 1864
01/07/1865 - Forwarded as a POW from Metropolitan Hotel, Washington, D.C., to Fortress Monroe, VA, for exchange
01/08/1865 - POW, Fort Monroe, VA, with "Hotel grounds - Mitt Creek" being his limits of parole
01/18/1865 - Appears on a register under the heading: "List of persons forwarded to point of exchange per Flag of Truce steamer."
01/23/1865 - Surgeon and Medical Director of Hospitals, Richmond, VA
02/24/1865 - Medical Director, Abingdon, VA
02/24/1865 - "The General Hospitals in North Carolina west of the Blue Ridge are placed under the jurisdiction of Surg. F. A. Ramsey" [S. O. 46/16]
03/14/1865 - Surgeon and Medical Director, Trans-Allegheny (or Western) Department of VA, Marion, VA
03/24/1865 - Medical Director, Marion, VA
1866 - Practiced medicine in Memphis, Shelby Co., TN
1870 - Practiced medicine, Shelby Co., TN
1873 - Moved to Knoxville, Knox Co., TN and practiced medicine
05/26/1884 - Died, Knoxville, Knox Co., TN (buried: Old Gray Cemetery)
Robert Krick provided input to this biography.
This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
08/04/2013. Unpublished database.
