Dr. William Gaston Gamble was born 9 Mar 1864 in Prairie Bluff, Alabama, to Samuel Smith Gamble (1788-1840) & Martha Gaston (1795-1875).
1860 - M.D, University of Louisiana Med. Dept, New Orleans, LA
He was a student at the University of Alabama in 1855, curtesy of Ancestry.com
1860 - M.D, University of Louisiana Med. Dept, New Orleans, LA
He was mustered into service 13 May 1862 Alabama 42nd Infantry Company C in the Confederacy Army at Mobile, AL
11 Sep 1862 - Ordered by the Secretary of War to report to Chattanooga, TN, to appear before an Army Board of Medical Examination [S.O.# 40, 4th Military Dist., Dept. of MS, & E. LA]
4 Apr 1863 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon from AL to rank from 27 Nov 1862
4 Apr 1863 - Ordered to report to Gen. Braxton Bragg
4 Apr 1863 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon, CS Army, by the CS Senate
1 May 1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Court House Hospital, Knoxville, TN
1 Aug 1863 - Asst. Surgeon, S. P. Moore Hospital, Athens, TN
30 Sep 1863 - Asst. Surgeon, S. P. Moore Hospital, Athens, TN
1 Mar 1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Atlanta, GA
1 Jun1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Atlanta, GA
14 Jul 1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Forsyth, GA (working with Dr. Ira Lawson Gunter)
31 Oct 1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Augusta, GA
26 Nov 1864 - Served in a Confederate States hospital, Iuka, MS
31 Jan 1865 - Asst. Surgeon, Academy Hospital, Auburn, AL
About his unit:
THE FORTY-SECOND ALABAMA INFANTRY.
The Forty-second Alabama, organized at Columbus, Miss., in May, 1862, was principally a reorganization of other regiments whose one year's service was completed. Lieutenant-Colonel Lanier, Maj. W. C. Fergus and Capt. George W. Foster were all from the Second Alabama, so that the regiment was immediately effective for the hard work before it. In September it was with the Thirty-seventh Alabama and Seventh Mississippi regiments in Maury's division of the army of the West. The next month it went into the siege of Corinth with 700 men, losing, killed and wounded, 348; of these, 11 were officers. The winter of 1862-63 was spent in Mississippi and the brigade was reorganized. It formed part of the garrison at Vicksburg, where it lost heavily and was captured. From the parole camp at Demopolis, it went to join the army of Tennessee, and served in the battle of Lookout Mountain, November 24, 1863, and at Missionary Ridge, November 25th, where it fought with its usual gallantry. Wintering around Dalton, it took part in the defense of that place, February 28, 1864, and in the campaign from there to Atlanta. March 19th, Gen. Alpheus Baker took command of the brigade, which now consisted of the Thirty-seventh, Fortieth, Forty second and Fifty-fourth Alabama. It fought at Resaca, May 14th and 15th; at New Hope church, May 25th; at Atlanta, July 25th to 28th. The losses on the 28th were very heavy. It was sent to Spanish Fort in August, where it formed a part of the garrison until January, when it was returned to the army of Tennessee. Its subsequent history is identical with that of the rest of the brigade. After April 1st, it was consolidated with the Thirty-seventh and Fifty-fourth, Capt. William D. McNeill, lieutenant-colonel, and surrendered with the army of Tennessee. Capt. George W. Foster and Allen B. Knox were killed, and Capt. John W. Haley mortally wounded, at Corinth. Capt. Robert Best died in the service. Capt. Robert K. Wills was killed at Atlanta, and Lieut. Capers W. Bodie at Vicksburg. The field officers were Col. John W. Portis, who was wounded at Corinth; Col. T. C. Lanier, wounded at Corinth and at New Hope, and Maj. W. C. Fergus. Capt. W. D. McNeill was made lieutenant colonel after consolidation.
Source: Confederate Military History, vol. VIII, p. 187
He was in the following battles:
3 Oct 62
Battle - Battle of Corinth - Corinth, Mississippi
18 May 1863
Battle - Vicksburg - Vicksburg, Mississippi
22 July 1964
Battle - Atlanta - Fulton County, Georgia; DeKalb County, Georgia
31 Aug 1964
Battle - Jonesborough - Clayton County, Georgia
He mustered out on 9 April 1865
He has a Memorial on 3 Fold. Here's the link
He married 13 Sep 1872 in Lee County, Mississippi, to Iva Elizabeth Agnew (1836-1886) daughter of James Wilson Agnew (1814-1856) & Elizabeth Dorllia Richey (1817-1909)
1886,1890 - Practiced medicine in Saltillo, Lee Co, MS
1893,1900 - Practiced medicine in Guntown, Lee Co, MS
1880 they are living in Beat 2, Lee, MS He is farming and a doctor. They would have the following children.
Mary Minter Gamble
1873–1960
Sarah Gertrude Gamble
1875–1876 died of meningitis
Dr. Hugh Agnew Gamble
1876–1954
James Wilson Gamble
1878–1884 died from pneumonia
Samuel Lee Gamble
1880–1881
Annie Lois Gamble
1881–1965
Dr. Paul Gaston Gamble
1882–1957
Dr. William Gaston Gamble died 11 Jul 1920 in Greenville, MS, while visiting his two sons.
cause: "senile debility"
Natchez Democrat
Natchez, Mississippi
Wed, Jul 14, 1920 · Page 5
Goodspeed's Memoirs of Mississippi, page 775--Oxford, MS Library
Dr. William G. Gamble is a planter of Saltillo, Lee county, and resides on his plantation 4 1/2 miles west of Saltillo. He is a native of Wilcox County, AL, born in 1834, and is the son of Samuel S. & Martha (Gaston) Gamble of Fairfield District, SC and Chester District, SC respectively.
The parents (Samuel S. and Martha Gaston-Gamble) were reared and educated in their native state (S. Carolina) but were married in Wilcox Co., AL Samuel S. Gamble was a son of James Gamble, a native of Pennsylvania; and he died in AL in 1840, at the age of 60 years. He was a successful farmer, and politically was allied to the democratic party.
Dr. William G. Gamble was reared amidst the scenes of his birth, and received a good literary education, which laid the foundation of the professional training he afterward received. He graduated from the College at Tuscaloosa, AL, in 1855, and the following year begin the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. AC Mathison, of Camden, AL. He afterward entered the University of Louisiana and was graduated from the medical department. This event occurred in 1859, and he began practicing at once.
He served during the war as assistant surgeon in different hospitals of the western army. He had first enlisted as a private in the 42nd Alabama regiment, Company C. When the was was over he returned to his home, and practiced his profession there until 1869. His health failing at that time he abandoned his practice, and in 1871 he came to Mississippi, purchased land, and has since made it his home.
Dr. Gamble was united in marriage to Mrs. E. I. Agnew, a daughter of Wilson and E. D. Agnew, natives of South Carolina. She was also a South Carolinian by birth, but was reared in Tennessee until her 12 year. Her parents then removed to Mississippi. She was born in 1849, and died in 1885. Seven children had been born to the Doctor and his wife: Mary, Gertrude (deceased), Hugh, Samuel (deceased), Wilson (deceased), Lois and Paul. Dr. Gamble takes an especial interest in the education of his children, and is fitting them for any duties as a citizen by exercising his right of suffrage faithfully and conscientiously. He is a loyal citizen, devoted to home industries, and the advancement and growth of home enterprises.
Dr. William Gaston Gamble
Photo scanned from the book "The Gaston Howard Wilkinson Families, In the Black Belt of Alabama" by Kathleen Wilkinson Wood
He was my 3rd cousin 5x removed.
What a fascinating life, the stories he could of told me would be so treasured, the good and the bad. I wish I would of known him. I have so many questions about the war and lives he must of saved and lost. He had two sons that became renown doctors as well. I bet he was a proud dad. He lost his wife when she was just 41 years old, that had to be tough, they had a three year old, 4 year old, and a 5 year old at the time. Those kids wouldn't know their mother, and the Doc never married again, which is amazing in itself for the time. I wonder who helped raise these children?
I hope you all have happy hunting in your endeavors as you do your family research.
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