Pim, Lewis T., 1828-1888.

Lewis T. Pim (1828-1888), Confederate surgeon and Missouri physician. A Pennsylvania native, Pim moved to Missouri with his family in the 1830s. He graduated from Kemper College in St. Louis, (later the Missouri Medical College), where he studied medicine with Joseph Nash McDowell (1805-1868), and then went on to study at the Jefferson Medical College and the University of Pennsylvania and working in hospitals in New York, Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Louisville. Having served as chief physician to the Shawnee and Delaware Indians, he accepted the chair of Demonstrator of Anatomy at the University of Missouri, and in 1856 became professor of surgery at the Missouri Medical College. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Pim joined the Confederate forces. In April 1861, he was appointed Surgeon of the 2nd Regiment of Missouri State Guard. Following the Jackson Camp Affair (May 10, 1861), he was briefly imprisoned at St. Louis Arsenal. In December 1861, he received a surgeon's appointment with the Western Department. In 1861-1863, Dr. Pim was assigned as post surgeon with a commission to establish hospitals at Nashville, Columbia, Franklin, Murfreesboro, and Pulaski, Tenn., Atlanta and Rome, Ga., and Columbus and Aberdeen, Miss. He also served on the Army Board of Medical Examination of the Army of Tennessee, becoming its president in March 1863. In June 1863, Dr. Pim was appointed to the post of the Chief of the Medical Bureau of Trans-Mississippi Dept. He saw field service at the battles of Shiloh and Chickamauga. By the end of the war, he had been promoted to Colonel, the only Confederate physician to receive this rank. After the war, he settled in New Orleans where set up a practice and married Ms. Celeste Picot. In 1870s, he moved to St. Louis where he accepted a chair at the Missouri Medical College. Dr. Pim was active in Missouri National Guard and Confederate veterans' organizations and founded a hospital for the Confederate veterans.

From the description of Papers of Lewis T. Pim, 1838-1888 (bulk 1861-1885) (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 123943891