Father: Thomas Johns Perry
Mother: Mary Louise Van Lear
- Attended, Allegany Academy, Allegany Co., MD
1850 - Lived with parents, Cumberland, Allegany Co., MD
1852-1854 - Attended, Lafayette College, Easton, PA - freshman & sophomore years
1854-1856 - Attended Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
1856 - A.B. degree, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA (thesis: "Professional Inability")
1858 - M.D. degree, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA (from:Maryland)
1860 - Practiced medicine, Cumberland, Allegany Co., MD (lived with his father - indexed as Vanleen Perry in the 1860 U.S. Census)
05/21/1861 - Enlisted as Pvt., Co. G, 2nd VA Infantry, Camp Johnson [?VA]
05/29/1861 - 2nd enlistment as Pvt., Co. G, 2nd VA Infantry, Bolivar Heights, VA
06/30/1861 - Mustered in as Pvt., Co. G, 2nd VA Infantry, Camp Stephens [?VA]
08/29/1861 - Charged $2.00 for a pair of shoes received as Pvt., Co. G, 2nd VA Infantry
09/19/1861 - Detailed, Army of the Potomac - Gen. Johnston
~10/15/1861 - Passed Confederate Army Board of Medical Examination for the position of Asst. Surgeon
10/19/1861 - "Asst Surgeon V. L. Perry, having been reported favorably by the [Confederate] Army Medical Board will immediately report to this office for assignment to duty" signed - S.P. Moore, Acting Surgeon General, Confederate States Army, Surgeon General's Office, Richmond, Virginia
10/21/1861 - "I have the honor to request that Asst. Surgeon Van Lear Perry, P.A.C.S. be ordered to report to me for duty." signed Thos. H. Williams, Medical Director, Army of the Potomac, Manassas Junction, VA
10/22/1861 - "Asst. Surgeon Van Lear Perry is assigned to the Army of the Potomac, he will immediately proceed to Manassas and report to Surgeon Thomas H. Williams[,] Medical Director" signed - S.P. Moore, Acting Surgeon General, Confederate States Army, Surgeon General's Office, Richmond, Virginia
10/23/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Manassas, VA
10/29/1861 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States [?to rank from 10/15/1861]
10/29/1861 - Ordered to report to the 57th VA Infantry as Asst. Surgeon
10/30/1861 - Ordered to Richmond, VA, by the Secretary of War
10/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Manassas Junction, VA
12/01/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 57th VA Infantry, stationed at Howard's Grove, Suffolk, VA
01/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 57th VA Infantry, Howard's Grove, Suffolk, VA]
02/05/1862 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon from Maryland by the Confederate States Senate
02/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 57th VA Infantry, Camp Cross, VA
02/24/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 57th VA Infantry, Fort Dillard, Gates Co., NC
03/01/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 57th VA Infantry, Fort Dillard, Gates Co., NC
04/14/1862 - Detailed on duty at Suffolk, VA
07/12/1862 - “Assistant Surgeon Van Lear Perry is relieved from duty with the Fifty-seventh Regiment Virginia Volunteers, and will report in person to the Surgeon-General, in this city.” [S.O. 161/18]
04/01/1863 - Stationed as Asst. Surgeon, Petersburg, VA
05/13/1863 - Ordered to proceed to Lincolnton, NC, "to take charge of the Medical Laboratory at that place until my arrival" - signed - A. Snowden Piggot, Surgeon-in-charge, C.S. Medical Laboratory [Lincolnton, NC]
08/18/1863 - Married, Elizabeth M. Gibson, Lincolnton, NC (she died in July,1864)
09/30/1863 - Stationed as Asst. Surgeon, Lincolnton, NC
11/01/1863 - Stationed as Asst. Surgeon, Lincolnton, NC
02/01/1864 - Stationed as Asst. Surgeon, Lincolnton, NC
05/01/1864 - Stationed as Asst. Surgeon, Lincolnton, NC
07/28/1864 - "“Assistant Surgeon V. L. Perry will report without delay to Medical Director [S. H.] Stout, Atlanta, Ga., for duty.” [S.O. 177/41]
08/09/1864 to 08/13/1864 - Travelled from Lincolnton, NC, to Macon, GA, and charged the Confederate government $10/day for travel expenses
08/15/1864 - Ordered to report as Asst. Surgeon to Polk Hospital, Vineville, GA [near Macon, GA]
08/19/1864 - Stationed as Asst. Surgeon, Macon, GA
09/03/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Polk Hospital, Vineville, GA [near Macon, GA]
09/09/1864 - Asst. Surgeon-in-charge, Polk Hospital, Macon, GA
02/00/1865 - Asst. Surgeon, Empire Hospital, Opelika, AL
05/06/1865 - Paroled by U.S. Army, Atlanta, GA
1865 - Sent to Navassa [an island in the West Indies, close to Haiti] by the Navassa Phosphate Co., as surgeon and assistant superintendent of the guano mining operations on the island [fall of 1865]
1866 - Returned from Navassa, West Indies and settled in Wickliffe, Clarke Co., VA
10/31/1867 - Married, Eliza Mayo Atkinson, Buckeystown, Frederick Co., MD (she died in 1913)
03/00/1868 - Moved with his wife to Harpers Ferry, WV
00/00/1868 - Returned to Navassa, West Indies, as medical director and superintendent of the island [fall of 1868]
10/26/1869 - Died of yellow fever, Nassau, New Providence District, Bahamas (remains were brought home from Nassau and buried in Edge Hill Cemetery, Charles Town, Jefferson Co., WV)

Keith Spotswood & 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.
02/04/2015. Unpublished database.