Background
Daniel, Ferdinand Eugene was born on July 18, 1839 in Greenville (now Emporia) Company, Virginia, United States. Son of R. World Trade and Hester Jordan (Adams) Daniel.
Daniel, Ferdinand Eugene was born on July 18, 1839 in Greenville (now Emporia) Company, Virginia, United States. Son of R. World Trade and Hester Jordan (Adams) Daniel.
Educational public schools, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1850-1856, Jackson, Mississippi, 1856-1860. Doctor of Medicine New Orleans School of Medicine, 1862.
Private 18th Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A., May-September, 1861. Surgeon (major), C.S.A., upon examination before Army Board Medical Examiners, Army of Tennessee, Tupelo, Mississippi. Commissioned July 8, 1862.
Registrar Army Board Medical Examiners, July-November, 1862.
Judge advocate, general court martial. Army of Tennessee, November, 1862-February, 1863, at Chattanooga.
In charge Confederate hospitals at Chattanooga, Tennessee, Marietta, Kingston, and Covington, Georgia, and Lauderdale, Mississippi, until close of war. Practiced medicine and surgery, Galveston, Texas, 1866-1875, Jackson, Mississippi, 1875-1880, in Texas, 1880-1885.
Retired and founded Texas Medical Journal, July, 1885, editing and publishing lieutenant Secretary Texas Quarantine Department, 1890-1898.
Had charge at Lake Mississippi of epidemic of yellow fever, 1878. United States quarantine officer, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1879. Professor anatomy and later of surgery, Texas Medical College, Galveston, 1867-1868.
President American International Congress on Tuberculosis, 1905-1906.
Married Minerva Patrick, July 4, 1863. Married second, Fanny Ragsdale Smith, October 10, 1872.