Notes for: James McFadden Gaston

James McFadden Gaston (1824-1903) was a Confederate surgeon and physician from South Carolina. He organized medical services while serving as Chief Surgeon of South Carolina Forces and later as Divisional Surgeon General of the South Carolina Volunteers during campaigns in Virginia and Pennsylvania, which included the battles of Manassas, Gettysburg and Chickamauga. His brothers were killed at the Battle of Seven Pines. Immediately after the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865, Gaston left the United States and settled his family in Brazil where he practiced medicine in the city of Campinas. After almost two decades, in 1883, Gaston returned with some of his family to Atlanta, Ga., where he successfully re-entered American medical life, teaching at the Southern Medical College, publishing articles, and carrying out research.