Fraser, Henry DeSaussure, 1828-1895.

Physician, of Charleston, S.C.; graduate of S.C. Medical College, 1851; studied in France and Germany, 1851-1852; practiced medicine in Charleston, S.C., 1852-1861, when he joined the Confederate army as an assistant surgeon; attached to Third Army Corps field hospital, Army of Northern Virginia; captured at Gettysburg and held as a prisoner of war for five months; resumed medical practice at the end of the Civil War; elected secretary of the S.C. Medical Association, 1873; secretary of the State Board of Health, 1878-1895; son of son of Frederick Grimke Fraser and Isabel Elliott Screven Fraser; in 1859, Fraser married his cousin, Jane E. Ladson.

From the description of Henry DeSaussure Fraser papers, 1851-1860. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 49221469