Father: Robert Beaty (1800-1890)
Mother: Nancy McKee (1800-1877)
10/24/1850 - Living with parents and sibs, Union Co., SC (indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as Samuel Beaty)
1855-1856 - Freshman, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC (from: Union Co., SC)
1856-1857 - Sophomore, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC (from: Union Co., SC - indexed as "Samuel H. Beattie")
1857-1858 - Junior, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC (from: Union Co., SC - indexed as "Samuel H. Beattie")
1859 - Graduated, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC (from: Union Co., SC - indexed as "Henry S. Beattie")
1859-1860 - Attended Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (from: Unionville, SC; preceptor: Dr. A. W. Thomson; did not graduate)
1860 - Attended University of Pennsylvania Medical Department, Philadelphia, PA (from: SC; did not graduate)
06/28/1860 - Medical Student, Union Co., SC (living with parents and sibs - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as "Henry Beatyse")
12/17/1861 - Enlisted as Pvt. 18th SC Infantry, Confederate Army, Unionville, SC
12/25/1861 - Pvt., Co. B, 18th SC Infantry
01/02/1861 - Pvt., Co. B, 18th SC Infantry
04/30/1862 - As Pvt., Co. B, 18th SC Infantry, sick in camp
09/00/1862 - 4th Sgt., 18th SC Infantry
10/00/1862 - 4th Sgt., Co. B, 18th SC Infantry
12/10/1862 - Elected, 2nd Lt., Co. B, 18th SC Infantry
10/05/1863 - 2nd Lt., Co. B, 18th SC Infantry, Mt Pleasant [?SC]
11/12/1863 - Submitted a Special Requisition for blankets, pants, drawers, shoes, jackets, shirts, & caps for men of the 18th SC Infantry
12/07/1863 - In a letter written by Capt. S. J. Tomb, Commanding Co. B, 18th SC Infantry, Sullivan's Island, SC, "I respectfully ask leave of absence for Lt. H. S. Beaty of Co. 'B', 18th S.C.V. for (14) fourteen days to visit his home in Union Dist. S.C. He has been in service for two years and had only (12) twelve days during the time. His business is to get Shoes for Men of My Company, as for some six completely barefooted and the Majority Nearly So. There is No Shoes in the Quartermasters department to be had. All the Commissioned Officers in my company are present for duty. [signed] S. J. Tomb, Capt Comdg Co. (B) 18 S.C.V." [There was no addressee on this letter, but the docketing on the back indicates that it was sent to an officer commanding the 18th SC Infantry and then up through the ranks and approved by all.]
12/08/1863 - Leave granted (S.O. 265/2 Dept. of S.C., Ga., & Fla. Gen. Beauregard)
12/12/1863 - 1st Lt., 18th SC Infantry
12/16/1863 - “The following-named medical officers will proceed without delay to Rogersville, Tenn., and report to Lieutenant-General J. Longstreet, commanding &c., for assignment to duty: Assistant Surgeons Henry S. Beatty [sic - Beaty], James D. Neal.”
02/04/1864 - Assigned as Asst. Surgeon, 9th GA Infantry
04/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 9th GA Infantry
05/02/1864 - Admitted as a patient, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA (diagnosis: Febris Intermittens Quotidian [form of malaria])
05/03/1864 - Transferred as a patient to Gen. Hospital No. 3, Lynchburg, VA
06/01/1864 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 12/09/1863
06/01/1864 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon from South Carolina by the Confederate States Senate
07/14/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 9th GA Infantry
12/18/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 9th GA Infantry, Gen. G. T. Anderson's Brigade, Gen. C. W. Field's Division, Gen. J. Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, near Richmond, VA
02/00/1865 - Asst. Surgeon, 9th GA Infantry
04/09/1865 - Paroled by the U.S. Army, Appomattox C.H., VA
08/12/1870 - Practiced medicine, Union Township, Union Co., SC (living with parents - indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as Henry Beaty)
~1871 - Married Mary Albert Brandon (1846-1880)
05/15/1877 - Mother, Nancy, died
06/02/1880 - Practiced medicine, Union Township, Union Co., SC (living with wife, Mary A., two sons, and one daughter - indexed in the 1880 U.S. Census as Henry S. Beaty)
09/05/1880 - Wife, Mary Albert, died in Union Co., SC
1886 - Practiced medicine, Union Co., SC
1890 - Member, South Carolina State Legislature
03/07/1890 - Father, Robert, died
04/26/1890 - Died of consumption, Union Co., SC (buried: Forest Lawn Cemetery, Union, Union Co., SC)

Anna O'Quinn Richter, Dora Brown, & Bob 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.
07/18/2016. Unpublished database.