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Dr John Fletcher Moodie

8 Nov 1838 – 28 Sep 1867

Birth8 Nov 1838
Death28 Sep 1867
CemeteryGlenwood Cemetery
Houston , Harris County , Texas , USA
Added byGene Ford on 16 Apr 2012
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88575684

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Father: Dr. Francis Winfred Moodie (1816-1854) Mother: Louisa Sarah Rebecca Oliver (1819-1895) 11/18/1850 - Lived with his parents and sibs, Beat No. 6, Butler Co. AL (indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as Fletcher Moodie) 05/21/1854 - Father, Francis, died in Greenville, Butler Co., AL 1859 - M.D. degree, Medical Department of the University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA (from Texas before medical school) 07/14/1860 - Practiced medicine, Beat No. 1, Shelby Co., TX (lived with the James Hanks family - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as "J .F. Moody") 05/08/1862 - Signed contract as Acting Asst. Surgeon (contract physician) with Medical Director S. A. Smith, Dept. of East Tennessee, Maj. Gen. E. Kirby Smith, commanding, Knoxville, TN 05/08/1862 to 06/07/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Knoxville, TN 06/07/1862 - "The following Medical Officers will report for duty to Major General E. K. Smith Commanding &c. at Knoxville, Tennessee: Asst Surgeon J. Moodie; Surgeon J. P. Bell; Asst. Surgeon H. C. Rogers" [S.O. 131/16] 06/11/1862 - As Medical Officer & Acting Asst. Surgeon, 23rd AL Infantry, Camp Van Dorn, near Knoxville, TN, provided the following Certificate of Disability, "A. N. Bell, 1st Lieut of Co. G, 23rd Regt Ala Vols., having applied for a Certificate upon which he desires to tender his resignation, I hereby Certify, that the above Officer has been unable for duty for upwards of four months in consequence of a chronic affection of the Lungs resembling what is usually denominated Simple Consumption together with a Rheumatism of the left leg which does & I believe will render him entirely unfit for duty perhaps for a considerable length of time. I further declare that Many Surgeons together with Myself have advised him to tender his Resignation. John F. Moodie" 10/02/1862 - "Assistant Surgeon J. F. Moodie is relieved from duty in the Hospitals at Knoxville, Tennessee, and will report to the Medical Director of [the] Department of Eastern Texas." [S.O. 230/35] 11/18/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 06/07/62 11/18/1862 - Ordered to report to Gen. E. K. Smith 02/03/1863 - "Asst Surgeon J. F. Moodie, having reported to the Medical Director of the District in accordance with instructions from the Sec. of War, will report for duty to Surgeon [William Pitt] Riddell in Charge of General Hospital at Houston Texas. By command of Gen. Magruder" [S.O. ?? Headquarters, District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona] 02/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Hospital duty, Houston, TX, District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona 04/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Houston, TX 04/04/1863 - Confirmed as an Asst. Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate 05/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon-in-charge, Gen. Hospital, Houston, TX 06/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Houston, TX 06/06/1863 - Ordered to examine conscripts [S.O. 20/2 Dept. Texas, New Mexico, & Arizona - Gen. Magruder] 07/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, "On Hospital Duty", Houston, Texas, Eastern Sub District of Texas commanded by Brig. Gen. W. R. Scurry 09/30/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Houston, TX 10/27/1863 - Assigned to duty examining conscripts in 2nd District [Eastern Sub District of Texas] in absence of Dr. William Pitt Riddell, by request of E. R. Withers, Enrolling Officer 11/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Houston, TX 12/21/1863 - Relieved from duty, Gen. Hospital, Houston, TX and assigned as Issuing Purveyor to Gen. J. E. Slaughter's 2nd Division (S.O. 108, Medical Director's Office, District of Texas, etc.) 10/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon-in-charge of hospitals, Houston, TX 03/01/1865 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Hempstead, TX, District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona 01/31/1865 - Married, Josephine Bell Needham (1846-1921), Harris Co., TX 06/15/1865 - Advertised as practicing medicine with Dr. W. P. Riddell, Houston Hall, Main & Preston Sts., Houston, TX [The Galveston Daily News, Galveston, TX, June 15, 1865, p. 2, c.5, 06/23/1865 - Paroled as Asst. Surgeon, Hospital Department, Houston, TX, while serving as a prisoner of war after the surrender of Confederate General E. Kirby Smith. 1867 - Practiced medicine at Massie's drug store, Houston, TX and maintained a residence at the corner of Brazos and Bagby Sts., Houston, TX 09/28/1867 - Died of yellow fever, Houston, Harris Co., TX (buried: Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, TX) Gene Ford 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. 06/11/2017. Unpublished database. The following was added by Gene Ford, the creator of this memorial: Married Josephine Bell Needham on January 31, 1865 in Harris County, Texas. She remarried after John's death to A. J. Marshall and moved to California.

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