David Wendel YANDELL

September 4, 1826 (age 71)

Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States, United States

He was reared in Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky, attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and received his medical degree from the University of Louisville in 1846. He also had two years of medical training in London, Dublin, and Paris during the late 1840s. Yandell had three daughters and a son by his 1851 marriage to Frances Jane Crutcher. He practiced and taught medicine in Louisville from 1848 until 1851, when he retired to a farm near Nashville for reasons of health. In 1853, he returned to Louisville, where he founded the Stokes Dispensary and taught classes in clinical medicine. When the Civil War began, he volunteered his talents to the Confederate Army. During the Civil War, he served under General Simon B. Buckner, and on the staffs of Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and Joseph E. Johnston. He was medical director for the Department of the West throughout the war and saw action at the battles of Shiloh, Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga, among other battles. He was Joseph Johnston’s political confidant, opposed Braxton Bragg’s military operations in the west, and argued against the administration’s inadequate supplying of the Army of Tennessee. After the war, he returned to Louisville, where he rejoined the faculty of the University of Louisville in 1867 and became a professor of clinical surgery two years later. In 1870, he published American Practitioner, and, in 1887, he was surgeon general for the Kentucky Militia.

David Wendel YANDELL

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YANDELL, David Wendel was born on September 4, 1826 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States, United States. Son of Lunsford Pitts and Susan Juliet (Wendel) Yandell.

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Private school, medical school.

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He was reared in Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky, attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and received his medical degree from the University of Louisville in 1846. He also had two years of medical training in London, Dublin, and Paris during the late 1840s. Yandell had three daughters and a son by his 1851 marriage to Frances Jane Crutcher.

He practiced and taught medicine in Louisville from 1848 until 1851, when he retired to a farm near Nashville for reasons of health. In 1853, he returned to Louisville, where he founded the Stokes Dispensary and taught classes in clinical medicine. When the Civil War began, he volunteered his talents to the Confederate Army.

During the Civil War, he served under General Simon B. Buckner, and on the staffs of Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and Joseph E. Johnston. He was medical director for the Department of the West throughout the war and saw action at the battles of Shiloh, Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga, among other battles. He was Joseph Johnston’s political confidant, opposed Braxton Bragg’s military operations in the west, and argued against the administration’s inadequate supplying of the Army of Tennessee.

After the war, he returned to Louisville, where he rejoined the faculty of the University of Louisville in 1867 and became a professor of clinical surgery two years later. In 1870, he published American Practitioner, and, in 1887, he was surgeon general for the Kentucky Militia.

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"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.

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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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