Background
MCCAW, James Brown was born on July 21, 1823 in Richmond, Virginia, United States, United States. Son of Dr. William Reid and Ann Ludwell (Brown) McCaw.
MCCAW, James Brown was born on July 21, 1823 in Richmond, Virginia, United States, United States. Son of Dr. William Reid and Ann Ludwell (Brown) McCaw.
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He attended Richmond Academy and studied medicine at the University of the City of New York in 1843, where he was a pupil of Valentine Mott. He returned to Richmond in late 1843 and soon became an important physician. McCaw had nine children by his 1845 marriage to Delia Patterson.
A founder of the Medical Society of Virginia in the late 1840s, he edited the Virginia Medical and Surgical Journal from 1853 to 1855 and the Virginia Medical Journal from 1856 to 1859. In 1858, he was made a professor at the Medical College of Virginia. When the Civil War began, he volunteered for service in the Confederate Cavalry Corps.
In 1862, he was made surgeon in charge and commandant at the Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, the largest hospital in the Confederacy and then one of the largest in the world. Seventy-six thousand soldiers were treated there. In 1864, he became editor of the Confederate States Medical Journal, a position which he held until the end of the war.
At the end of the hostilities, he returned to his medical practice in Richmond. From 1868 to 1883, he was a professor of chemistry and medicine and dean from 1871 to 1883 of the faculty at the Medical College of Virginia.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
