Madison County History and Genealogy

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Army Surgeons from Madison County


Dr. Joseph C. Kalb, commissioned Assistant Surgeon in the Fortieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, October 3, 1861. He resigned January 6, 1863; term of service, two years and three months.

Dr. John Noble Beach, commissioned by Gov. David Tod Surgeon in the Fortieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, to succeed Surgeon Alexander McBride, April 14, 1862, to rank as such from April 1, 1862. Was mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., with that portion of the regiment that did not re-enlist or veteranize, December, 1864; term of service, two years and nine months.

Dr. William Morrow Beach, commissioned by Gov. David Tod, Assistant Surgeon in the volunteer forces of Ohio in the service of the United States (State Surgeons), April 3, 1862, and was assigned to duty at Shiloh with the Twentieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Was commissioned by Gov. David Tod Assistant Surgeon in the Seventy-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, May 3, 1862, to rank as such from April 20, 1862; re-enlisted or veteranized with the Seventy-eighth Ohio Regiment for the remaiader of the war at Vicksburg, Miss., in April, 1864. Was commissioned by Gov. John Brough as Surgeon of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, May 19, 1864. Was mustered out with the regiment, after the close of the war, at Salisbury, N. C, June, 1865; term of service, three years and three months.

Dr. Orestes G. Field, commissioned by Gov. John Brough Assistant Surgeon in the Fourth Ohio Cavalry March 19, 1864; promoted to Surgeon, to succeed Surgeon Lucius H. James, resigned, October 25, 1864. Mustered out with regiment; term of service, one year and three months.


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