Father: Isham Harrison, Sr.
Mother: Harriet Kelly
1855 - M.D. degree, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (from: MS)
07/01/1856 - Mother, Harriet, died
10/27/1859 - Married, Mary McFarland Bradford, Aberdeen, Monroe Co., MS (she died in 1925)
05/01/1862 - Enlisted, Pvt., Co., A, 12th MS Cavalry [later became 10th MS Cavalry], Confederate Army, Aberdeen, MS
05/01/1863 - Detached from 12th MS Cavalry by order of Gen. B. Bragg
08/00/1863 - Detached from 12th MS Cavalry
09/20/1863 - Passed Confederate Army Board of Medical Examination, Charleston, SC (Surgeon Eli Geddings, President Medical Examining Board)
09/30/1863 - Father, Isham Harrison, Sr., died in Monroe Co., MS
10/02/1863 - "The following-named medical officers will report to Surgeon E. A. Flewellen, medical director, &c., at the headquarters of General B. Bragg for assignment to duty: Assistant Surgeons Moses Kelly Harrison, Robert Harper Oakman." [S.O. 234/2]
10/05/1863 - Ordered to report to Surgeon D[avid] W[endel] Yandell, Meridian, MS
10/05/1863 - "So much of Paragraph II, Special Orders No. 234, current series, as refers to Assistant Surgeon Moses Kelly Harrison is hereby revoked, and Assistant Surgeon Harrison will report to Surgeon D. W. Yandell, at Meridian, Miss." [S.O. 236/21]
11/00/1863 - Reported to Gen. S. W. Ferguson
11/11/1863 - Ordered to report to Maj. Gen. S. D. Lee, commanding Cavalry, for assignment to duty [S.O. 242/13 - HQ, Meridian, MS]
12/10/1863 - Assigned to duty by Surgeon D. W. Yandell
01/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Sanders [?or Saunders] Battery, Gen. S. W. Ferguson's Brigade, Gen. S. D. Lee's Cavalry Command
02/02/1864 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 09/26/1863
02/02/1864 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon from MS by the Confederate States Senate
02/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Miller's Regiment, Gen. S. W. Ferguson's Brigade, Gen. S. W. Ferguson's Division, Gen. S. D. Lee's Cavalry Command
03/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Miller's Regiment, Gen. S.W. Ferguson's Brigade of Cavalry, Calhoun Station [?MS]
04/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Miller's Regiment, Gen. S. W. Ferguson's Brigade, Gen. Jackson's Division, Gen. S. D. Lee's Cavalry Command
05/02/1864 - "I have to request that Assistant Surgeon Moses K Harrison be relieved of his present assignment & ordered to report to Col. Isham Harrison [Jr.], Comdg [6th MS] Cavalry Regt., Wirt Adams' Brigade. Very Respectfully, Your obedt svt[,] P[reston] B[rown] Scott, Med[ical] Director" Hd. Qr., M[edical] D[irectors] O[ffice], Demopolis, Ala.
07/27/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 6th MS Cavalry, near Okolona, MS
11/28/1864 - Assigned to duty by Maj. Gen. B. Forrest
12/11/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 26th TN Battalion Cavalry
05/01/1865 - Paroled by U.S. Army as "Capt & Asst Surg, Forrest's Regt Cav", Gainesville, AL
1874 - Practiced medicine, Macon, Noxubee Co., MS
06/23/1880 - Practiced medicine, Township 16, Range 18, Noxubee Co., MS (living with wife, Mary, and five children)
1886,1890,1893 - Practiced medicine, Deerbrook, Noxubee Co., MS
05/02/1894 - Died, Deerbrook, Noxubee Co., MS

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.
02/09/2015. Unpublished database.