DeSaussure, Louis M., 1804-1869.

Louis M. DeSaussure was a physician and planter of Beaufort County, S.C., son of Henry W. DeSaussure, longtime state chancellor.

From the description of Louis M. DeSaussure journal, 1835-1865 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 22758362

Louis M. DeSaussure was born 20 May 1804 in Prince William Parish, S.C. His father was Henry W. DeSaussure, who was elected to the chancery bench in 1808 and served the state as chancellor for the next 29 years.

Louis DeSaussure was a physician and planter in Beaufort County, S.C. He appears to have owned two principal properties, one the Beaufort County plantation, and the other a home called Woodstock. Judging from DeSaussure's slave lists, the plantation was a moderately large operation, with cotton as its primary crop.

DeSaussure was a member of the Episcopal Church. He married Jane Hay Hutson, with whom he had two sons: Charles Alfred (1846-1935), who was also a physician and who, in 1930, served as commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans; and Thomas Hutson, who, for forty years, was resident engineer at the State Insane Sanatarium at Milledgeville, Ga.

During the Civil War, DeSaussure first served, with his son Charles, as surgeon with the 8th South Carolina Regiment. Later he appears to have been surgeon with the 4th South Carolina Regiment. After the war, his property having been confiscated, DeSaussure settled in Camden, S.C., where he practiced medicine until his death on 6 June 1869.

From the guide to the Louis M. DeSaussure Journal, 1835-1865, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)