CONFEDERATE VETERAN DR. CHARLES SHEPPARD WEBB'S SURGEON'S KIT
G. Tiemann and Company surgeons' kit, once the property of Confederate Veteran Dr. Charles Shepard Webb, who served in the famed 9th Virginia Cavalry. The kit comes with a letter of provenance and a packet of research material. As a young man, he served in Company K until the end of the war. Records show him being hospitalized on 12/15/1864 and returned to duty on 3/15/1865 The 9th Cavalry Regiment was formed in January 1862, using the 1st
Battalion Virginia Cavalry as its nucleus. Its companies were from the
counties of Stafford, Caroline, Westmoreland, Lancaster, Essex,
Spotsylvania, Lunenburg, King William, King George, and Richmond.
It
fought in the Seven Days' Battles, the conflicts at Gainesville, Second
Manassas, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Dumfries, Rapidan Station, Brandy
Station, Upperville, Hanover, Gettysburg, Williamsport, Funkstown,
Culpeper Court House, Bristoe, Mine Run, The Wilderness, and Todd's
Tavern. Later, it skirmished around Richmond and Petersburg, then was
active in the Appomattox operations.
After the war, Charles S. Webb studied medicine at the University of Virginia. The following is his obituary.
"Dr. Charles Shepherd Webb, a native and life long resident of Caroline
County. and one of its most prominent citizens died at his home in
Bowling Green yesterday afternoon after a brief illness. Dr. Webb. who
was 89 years of age, was formerly mayor of Bowling Green. He practiced
medicine In Caroline County for nearly 60 years. Fellow townspeople
regarded him as the foremost citizen in Caroline County, a leader in
civic, church, medical and political activities. He was educated at the
old Farnham Institute and University of Virginia. Before studying
medicine, Dr. Webb was professor of mathematics at Baylor University.
Texas, and later principal of a male high school at Camden, Ark. Before
coming to Caroline County, Dr. Webb served as professor of medicine in
the Southern Methodist College at Atlanta. For the past 50 years he had
practiced his profession in Bowling Green. Known to all the people of
the county, Dr. Webb was a man held in the highest esteem. He served
several terms as Mayor of Bowling Green and otherwise was honored by his
fellow citizens. He was married twice, his first wife having been the
former Miss Ella Moore Fauntleroy of Atlanta, who died in 1898, and his
second wife the former Miss May Camper of Orange County. Dr. Webb is
survived by his widow, one daughter, Miss Margaret Shepherd Webb, and
three sons, Dr. Charles Shepherd Webb. Jr., Bowling Green; Robert Henry
Webb, attorney of Richmond, and Dr. William Camper Webb, of Ashland, Va.
Funeral
services will take place Saturday morning at 11 o'clock from the
Bowling Green Methodist Church, conducted by the pastor, Rev. L. M.
Ritter. Interment will take place In Lakewood Cemetery."
(Fredericksburg) The Free Lance-Star - Nov. 29, 1935.