Person:George Harrison (52)

Working Timeline

adapted from notes at Find A Grave - citations needed

1850 Aug 20: CENSUS. Lived with parents, Albemarle Co., VA

1851-1856: Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

1856: Education, M.A., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

1856: Education, M.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

????: Lecturer, University of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

MILITARY

• 1861 May 22: Military, appointed Assistant Surgeon, Virginia Volunteer Forces by the Governor and Council ; assigned to Col. P. Hairston, Camp Davis Ford
• 1861-1862: Military, Assistant Surgeon, 24th VA Infantry, Army of the Potomac, near Centerville, VA ; Wolf Run Shoals, Occoquan River and Camp Pickens ; then 6th Brigade, I Corps, Army of the Potomac, Wolf Run Shoals, Occoquan River

1862 Apr 07: Father, Gessner Harrison, died

• 1862 May 05: Reported missing after the action near Williamsburg, VA
• 1863 Feb 25: Passed Army Board of Medical Examination for position of Surgeon ; ordered to report to Chief Surgeon, Gen. G. E. Pickett's Division
• 1863 Jun 12: appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 01/12/1863
• 1863 Aug 10: - confirmed as Surgeon from VA by the Confederate States Senate
• 1863 Sep 30: requested a two day leave of absence
• 1863 Nov 15: hospitalized, General Hospital No. 4, Richmond, VA - hemorrhoids
• 1863 Nov 30: granted furlough
• 1864 Jan 30: confirmed as Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
• 1864 Apr 18: Surgeon, 24th VA Infantry, near Goldsboro, NC
• 1864 Jul 21: as Surgeon, 24th VA Infantry, ordered 2 pairs drawers, 2 socks, and 1 spur from Capt. R. C. Woods, Asst. Quartermaster, for $18
• 1864 Sep 16: Surgeon, 24th VA Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia ; "A commission consisting of the following-named medical officers will proceed at once to make a thorough inspection of the hospitals in Virginia and North Carolina, with authority to return to the field all detailed men and patients fit for duty. They will also report on the men detailed on government work or in conscript camps, whether their places may not be supplied by men now disabled. Commanding generals will give all the necessary facilities for carrying out the object proposed: Surgeons R. J. Breckenridge, Robert Coleman, S. W. Langdon, Provisional Army Confederate States."
  
• 1864 Sep 26: "Paragraph XVIII, Special Orders No. 218, current series, is so amended as to substitute Surgeons J. H. Millen, [J. F. Miller] Thirty-fourth Regiment North Carolina Volunteers, and G. T. Harrison, of Twenty-fourth Regiment Virginia Volunteers, for Surgeons R. J. Breckenridge and S. W. Langdon." [S.O. 228/27]
  
• 1864 Dec 13: as Hospital Inspector, completed an inspection of Gen. Hospital No. 4, Wilmington, NC
• 1865 Mar 09: as Surgeon, 24th VA Infantry, Gen. G. E. Pickett's Division, Field Infirmary, near Richmond, VA, wrote the following note, "My servant George has permission to go to [the] city of Richmond & return tomorrow"

1865 Oct 18: married, Lelia Bell, Richmond, VA

1870 Dec 27: practiced medicine, 12th Election District, 16th Ward, New York, New York Co., NY (living with Virginia Harrison, 25 y.o. female, and two children)

1874, 1886, 1890, 1900, 1910 CENSUS: practiced medicine, New York City, NY

• Physician and Asst. Surgeon, Woman's Hospital, NY City, NY
• Staff, Misericordia Hospital, New York, NY
• Staff, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, New York, NY
• Staff, New York Infant Asylum, New York, NY
• Member, American Gynecological Society
• Member, Medical Society of Virginia

1911 Jul 07: wife Lelia died, New Castle, Winchester Co., NY (buried: University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium, Charlottesville, VA)

1916 Nov 21: married, Cornelia "Nelly" Ostrander, New York City, NY

1920 CENSUS: practiced medicine, Charlottesville, Albemarle Co, VA

1922 Nov 02: wife, Cornelia, died, Charlottesville, VA (buried: University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium)

1825 Jun 01: lived, Mt. Kisco, New Castle, Westchester Co., NY - no occupation

1925 Oct 04: died, Mt. Kisco, Westchester Co, NY (buried: University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium, Charlottesville, VA)

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Grave Recorded, in Find A Grave
   [Includes headstone photo], last accessed Jan 2017.