Father: Dr. Lewis DeSaussure Ford
Mother: Frances Emily Chiles
1850 - Lived, Division 73, Richmond Co., GA
1856 - M.D. degree, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
1860 - Practiced medicine with his father, Ward 4, Augusta, Richmond Co., GA
04/25/1866 - Married, Mrs. Georgia Rucker Hull [she died in 1908; maiden name was Rucker, former wife of Capt. James Meriwether Hull who died in 1864]
09/02/1861 - Appointed, Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
09/07/1861 - Assigned to the Gen. Hospital, Culpeper Court House, VA, and ordered to report to Surgeon Daniel Smith Green for duty
09/16/1861 - Reported for duty as Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Culpeper C.H., VA
10/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Culpeper C.H., VA
12/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Culpeper C.H., VA
02/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Culpeper C.H., VA
03/17/1862 - Ordered to report to Surgeon D.S. Green, Charlottesville, VA'
03/18/1862 - Left Culpeper Court House, VA, and reported for duty as Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
04/08/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Charlottesville, VA
04/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital #2, Lynchburg, VA
05/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital #2, Lynchburg, VA
06/30/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Lynchburg, VA
07/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital #2, Lynchburg, VA
08/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Gen. Hospital #2, Lynchburg, VA
09/05/1862 - Returned to Gen. Hospital #2, Lynchburg, VA, after leave since Sept. 1, 1862
09/10/1862 - Received telegraphic order from the Surgeon General to leave Lynchburg and travel to Richmond, VA
09/00/1862 - Returned from Richmond, VA
09/17/1862 - Relieved from Gen. Hospital No. 2, Lynchburg, VA, and ordered to report to Gen. H. Marshall as Medical Director
11/01/1862 - Signs receipt for pay for the period October 1, 1862 to October 31, 1862 as Surgeon and Medical Director, Army of E. Kentucky [$162/mo.]
12/26/1862 - "The following medical officers will report without delay to Colonel J. C. Shields, commandant, &c., in this city for assignment to duty in one of the congressional districts of Virginia in examining conscripts, pursuant to General Orders Nos. 82 and 101, current series:...Assistant Surgeon DeSaussure Ford." [S.O. 302/3]
01/00/1863 - As Surgeon, reported to Col. Shields, Camp Lee, near Richmond, VA, to serve "as one of the board for examination of conscripts"
05/18/1863 - As Asst. Surgeon at Camp Lee, VA, tendered his resignation, "immediate and unconditional," to the Hon. Jas. A. Seddon, Secretary of War, Confederate States
05/27/1863 - Resignation as Asst. Surgeon accepted by the President, Confederate States [S.O. 126]
06/17/1863 - Signed receipt for pay as
Asst. Surgeon covering the period 05/01/1863 to 05/26/1863
1870 - Practiced medicine, Ward 3, Augusta, Richmond Co., GA
1880 - Practiced medicine, Augusta, Richmond Co., GA
1886 - Practiced medicine, corner of Broad & McIntosh, Augusta, GA
1890,1896,1900 - Practiced medicine, Augusta, Richmond Co., GA
02/14/1906 - Died, Augusta, Richmond Co., GA

Note: This physician, who was an Asst. Surgeon in 1861 and most of 1862, temporarily served as a Surgeon in late 1862 and early 1863. His rank was returned to Asst. Surgeon later in 1863. This demotion might have had something to do with his resigning from the Confederate Army in May, 1863.

Bob Krick provided input to this biography.

Thanks to Anna O'Quinn Richter for finding this Confederate physician's burial location,for creating this memorial, and for transferring it.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
12/27/2013. Unpublished database.

The following note was added by Anna O'Quinn Richter:

Dr Ford's father was generally known as "Lewis D. Ford" even though his full name was "Lewis DeSaussure Ford." This Dr. Ford, the son, of Lewis DeSaussure Ford was generally referred to as "DeSaussure Ford."