Father: Richard Holman Redwood
Mother: Sabrina Caroline Davis
- Student, Yale University, New Haven, CT (did not graduate)
1849-1853 - Student, University of VA, Charlottesville, VA, (did not graduate)
1855 - M.D. degree, The University of the City of New York, NYC, NY (from: AL)
03/27/1855 - Married, Martha "Matte" Ann Hamner, Columbia, Maury Co., TN
10/10/1861 - Chaplain, 21st AL Infantry
11/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 21st AL Infantry, Fort Gaines, AL
02/05/1862 - Appointed, Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 10/26/1861
02/05/1862 - Confirmed as Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
07/31/1862 - Surgeon, 21st AL Infantry
04/06/1862 - Captured at a hospital in TN where he was caring for the wounded from the Battle of Shiloh
04/15/1862 - Released on parole and assigned to duty rendering his professional services to the prisoners of war at McDowell's College [prisoner of war holding facility for Confederate prisoners], St. Louis, MO
04/21/1862 - Wrote to Federal Brig. Gen. Schofield, "I have rendered my professional services to the prisoners of war" now at McDowell College and confirmed that he had not violated his parole
04/30/1862 - As a prisoner of war and Surgeon, 21st AL Infantry, ordered to proceed from St. Louis, MO, to Camp Douglas, Chicago, IL, under his parole of honor
00/00/1862 - Prisoner, Chicago, IL
07/00/1862 - Exchanged
10/21/1862 - Charged with conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline, Headquarters, Army of the West, Holly Springs, MS [Specifically, he approved a sanitary report that was purported to be false as to fact.]
12/21/1862 - Senior Surgeon, Hebert's Brigade, 2nd Corps
01/30/1863 - Senior Surgeon, Hebert's Brigade, Snyder's Mills, MS
04/00/1863 - Surgeon, Memphis Appeal Battery, Snyder's
Mill, MS, near Vicksburg, MS
01/20/1864 - "Surgeon R. H. Redwood will report to medical director of Major-General D. H. Maury's command for assignment to hospital duty in Mobile, Ala."
[S. O. 16/3]
02/19/1864 - Assigned by Maj. Gen. D. H. Maury to the position of Surgeon-in-charge, LeVert Hospital, Mobile, AL
03/00/1864 - Surgeon-in charge, LaVert Hospital, Mobile, AL
04/28/1864 - Stationed, Mobile, AL
05/25/1864 - Surgeon-in-charge, LeVert Hospital, Mobile, AL
07/00/1864 - Medical Officer, LeVert Hospital (for Federal prisoners), Mobile, AL
12/20/1864 - Surgeon, LeVert Hospital, Mobile, AL
05/16/1865 - Paroled, Columbus, MS
1870 - Practiced medicine, Mobile, Mobile Co, AL
04/18/1874 - Died, Mobile, Mobile Co., AL

Thanks to Tim Childree for the transfer of this memorial.

Robert 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.
07/28/2013. Unpublished database.