Father: Arthur Lipsey (1810-1878)
Mother: Rhoda Whitman (1811-1859)]
1840 - Lived with parents and sibs, Macon Co., GA
1854-1855 - Attended, The University of the City of New York, Medical Department, New York, NY (from: GA)
06/27/1858 - Married, Elizabeth C. Gay (1839-1874), Lumpkin, Stewart Co., GA
1859 - Mother, Rhoda, died
06/09/1860 - Practiced medicine, Lee Co., GA (lived with wife, E. C., and one son;
indexed in the 1860 U .S. Census as H. B. Lipsey)
07/03/1861 - Enlisted as 2nd Lt., Co. B, 11th GA Infantry, Atlanta, GA
11/30/1861 - 2nd Lt., Co. B, 11th GA Infantry, Centreville, VA
12/19/1861 - Elected 1st Lt., Co. B., 11th GA Infantry, to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of Lt. Gill
12/31/1861 - 1st Lt., Co. B, 11th GA Infantry, Centreville, VA
01/31/1862 - 1st Lt., Co. B, 11th GA Infantry, Camp Sam Jones
02/07/1862 - As 1st Lt., Co. B, 11th GA Infantry, in Starkville, GA, on recruiting service
03/12/1862 - In a letter written from Starkville, Lee Co., GA, to Hon. H. C. Wayne, Milledgeville, GA, "Dear Sir, I have been detailed to recruit for my company under General Orders No. 2, and I am also clothed with the proper Authority from my Superior officers that I am serving under. A copy of the enclosed copy has been served on some of my recruits since their names were enrolled upon my muster role and previous to the 4th day of March I have some reason to doubt their ever receiving such notice from you. I desire to know whether they did or not. Any information in relation to this mater [sic] will be thankfully received. H. B. Lipsey, 1st Lieut, Com B, 11th Reg Ga Vols." [Note: Henry Constance Wayne was the Adjutant & Inspector General of Georgia during the American Civil War.]
03/31/1862 - 1st Lt., Co. B, 11th GA Infantry, camp at Orange, VA, "returned from
recruiting service"
01/31/1863 - 1st Lt., Co. B, 11th GA Infantry
09/24/1863 - As 1st Lt, Co. B, 11th GA Infantry, admitted to Floyd House and Ocmulgee Hospitals, Macon, GA (diagnosis: Chronic Diarhea [sic])
09/24/1863 - On a statement of disability for a leave of absence prepared in the General Hospital, Macon, GA, "Lt. H B. Lipsey, Co. B, 11 Regt Ga Vols having applied for a certificate on which to ground an application for leave of absence. We hereby certify that we have carefully examined the said officer and find him unable for service in consequence of chronic Diarhea [sic] and further declare in our belief that he will not be able to resume his duties in a less period than thirty days. We therefore respectfully recommend that leave of absence be granted him for thirty days. Wm H. Whitehead, Senior Surg of Board of Examining"
09/28/1863 - As 1st Lt., Co. B, 11th GA Infantry, granted leave of absence [S. O. 196/1 Dept. of S. C., Ga., & Fla., Gen. Beauregard]
10/14/1863 - In a Certificate of Disability prepared by Thos. Porter Gary, Examining Surgeon, 2d Congressional District, Georgia, "Albany, Ga, Oct 14th, 1863, First Lieut H. B. Lipsey of Comp B 11th Ga Vol having applied for a certificate upon which to ground an application for resignation, I do hereby certify that I have carefully examined this officer and find him labouring under chronic Hepatitis also chronic Diarrhea of long standing and give it as my opinion that the service would be benefited by his discharge from office. Thos P. Gary, Exam Surgeon, 2d Cong Dist."
10/16/1863 - In a letter written from Starkville, GA, to Lt. Col. William Luffman, Comdg, 11th Ga Regt., "Sir, In consequence of ill health I hereby tender my resignation to the government respectfully soliciting that it be forwarded through the proper military channel to the War Department. Very Respectfully, H. B. Lipsey, 1st Lt. Com B, 11th Ga Vols" [Docketing on the back of this letter reads, "Hd. Qtrs, 11th Ga, Oct 20, 63, Appd. and respectfully forwarded. I respectfully ask that the resignation be recd as Lieut Lipsey has been unable to perform the duty of his office for many months in consequence of feeble health. F. H. Little, Col., Comdg Rgt."
11/05/1863 - Resigned "because of physical disability" on a Surgeon's Certificate of Disability
1864 - Lived in the 915th GA Militia District, Georgia
05/24/1865 - Surgeon, 10th GA Militia, Albany, Dougherty Co., GA
07/09/1870 - Practiced medicine and farmed, Lee Co., GA (lived with wife, E. C., and 4 children; indexed in the 1870 U. S. Census as Hezekiah B. Lipsey)
11/08/1871 - Democratic Representative for Lee Co., GA, in the Georgia State Legislature
07/27/1873 - Died of cholera morbus at "Wooten", Leesburg, Lee Co., GA (buried: Leesburg Cemetery, Leesburg, GA; FindAGrave # 228889273) [Obituary: The Albany News, Albany, GA, Aug. 1, 1873, p. 3, c. 2.]
00/00/1874 - Widow, Elizabeth, died (buried: Leesburg Cemetery, Leesburg, GA; FindAGrave #229175137)
08/00/1878 - Father, Arthur, died (buried: Wesley Chapel Cemetery, Chickasaw Co., MS; FindAGrave #14617289)

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F. T. & Koste, J. L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
06/26/2021. Unpublished databas