Background
MCGUIRE, Hunter Holmes was born on October 11, 1835 in Winchester, Virginia, United States, United States. Son of Dr. Hugh Holmes and Ann Eliza (Moss) McGuire.
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Hunter Holmes MCGUIRE
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Education
Private school, northern university, medical school.
Career
He studied medicine at Winchester Medical College in 1855 and at the University of Pennsylvania and Jefferson Medical College in 1856. He was an Episcopalian. He married Mary Stuart in 1866, and they had nine children, two of whom became doctors.
He practiced medicine in Winchester for only about a year, and in 1857, became a professor of anatomy at the Winchester Medical College. In 1858, he returned to Philadelphia for further study, but after John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry in 1859, McGuire, a secessionist, agreed to pay the fees of all Southern students who were studying in the North to return to Richmond. He then went to New Orleans to teach in the Medical Department of the University of Louisiana.
After Virginia seceded, he returned home and volunteered in the Confederate Army as a private. He was at Harper’s Ferry prior to his appointment as a surgeon in May 1861. He served under “Stonewall” Jackson as medical director of the Army of the Shenandoah, was promoted to brigadier general in 1862, and was surgeon to Jackson and later to the 2nd Army Corps under the command of General Richard S. Ewell.
He became medical director of the Army of Northern Virginia and of the Army of the Valley of Virginia in 1864, organized the Reserve Corps Hospital, and perfected the Ambulance Corps. He was captured in March 1865 and paroled when the war ended. From 1865 to 1878, he held the chair of surgery at the Medical College of Virginia.
One of the founders of the Medical Society of Virginia in the 1870s, he was also president of the American Medical Association in 1892. In 1875, he was the president of the Association of Medical Officers of the Army of the Confederate States. From 1893 until his death in Richmond on September 19,1900, McGuire was president of the College of Physicians in Richmond.
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.
Connections
Spouse Mary Stuart.
