| "Father: Dr. George W. Crymes Mother: Jane S. Ector 1854-55 - Attended a course of medical lectures in the Medical Department of the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY1856 - M.D. degree, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA (from AL before medical school) 1860 - Practiced medicine, Barbour Co, AL 05/02/1862 - Enlisted, Confederate States Army, Opelika, AL 05/02/1862 - Pvt., Co. K, 39th AL Infantry 08/16/1862 - Passed Army Board of Medical Examination for Asst. Surgeon, Chattanooga, TN 08/17/1862 - Having passed the Army Board of Medical Examination for physicians, he was discharged from further service [in the line] with his regiment and ordered to report as "surgeon" to Gen. L. Polk 11/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon 39th AL Infantry, sick at home 12/04/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 08/16/1862 04/04/1863 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate 08/31/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 39th AL Infantry, Army of TN, near Chattanooga, TN 12/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 39th AL Infantry, Dalton, GA 07/25/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 25th AL Infantry, Gen. Z. C. Deas Brigade, Gen. J. P. Anderson's Divison, Atlanta, GA 04/26/1865 - Surrendered, near Jamestown, NC 05/00/1865 - Paroled, Greensboro, NC 01/22/1867 - Married, Mattie R. Wilson, Barbour Co, AL 1870 Practiced medicine, Barbour Co, AL 1883, 1886,1890 - Practiced medicine, Midway, Bullock Co, AL 1900 - Died, Midway, Bullock Co, AL (buried: Midway Cemetery, Midway, Bullock Co, AL - also called Midway Baptist Cemetery)." This biographical sketch is from: Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical register of physicians who served the Confederacy in a medical capacity. 06/16/2012. Unpublished database. |
