Background
DE LEON, David Camden was born in 1813 in Camden, South Carolina, United States, United States. Son of Dr. Mardici Heimrich and Rebecca (Lopez-y-Numez) DeLeon.
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David Camden DE LEON
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Education
Private school, southern university, medical school.
Career
A brother of the writer Thomas Cooper and Edwin De Leon, he graduated from South Carolina College in 1833 and from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1836. He was raised in the Jewish faith. De Leon became an assistant surgeon in the army and had a command in Florida during the Seminole War.
During the Mexican War, he was attached to the staffs of Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott. It was here that De Leon earned the sobriquet “The Fighting Doctor,” for he led charges at Chapultepec and Molino del Rey in 1847. He served on the southwestern frontier until 1860, when he traveled in the Orient.
De Leon resigned his army commission in the spring of 1861. President Davis named him acting surgeon general of the Confederacy in 1861. He held the post for one year.
He organized the Medical Department, served in the field in the Peninsula and Richmond campaigns, and later was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Department. After the war, he went to Mexico with Magruder. He moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1866 to practice medicine and died there on September 3, 1872.
Religion
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Politics
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
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September 3, 1872 (aged 59)