Bullock County AlArchives Biographies.....Caldwell, Groves 1825 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
DR. GROVES CALDWELL, one of the oldest practitioners of Bullock county, Ala.,
and a resident of Midway, was born in Greene county, Ga., in 1825, a son of
Joshua and Charlotte (Beasley) Caldwell, natives, respectively, of Maryland and
Georgia. Joshua Caldwell was a youth when he went with his father from Maryland
to Georgia, where he became a mechanic, married, then went to planting, and made
a fortune. He passed the last years of his life in Macon county, Ga, and died
about 1868. He had been twice married, his first wife, the mother of Groves
Caldwell, having died when the latter was about ten years of age. John Caldwell,
the father of Joshua, was an American by nativity, but of Scotch parentage; he
located in Georgia about 1836, but later came to Alabama and here died, having
followed planting all his life. Dr. Groves Caldwell was the third born in a
family of four sons and four daughters. He was educated at Oak Bowery academy in
Chambers county, Ala., and at La Grange, Ga., and read medicine at La Fayette,
Ala., with Drs. Hudson and Bacon one year. He then went to Philadelphia, and at
the Pennsylvania university was under the private tutorage of Dr. William H.
Hoener, then professor of anatomy. Graduating in 1845, he practiced at Oak
Bowery until 1849, when he removed to Barbour county, Ala., where he practiced
and farmed for a few years, and then removed to Enon, where he continued
practicing and farming until 1881, since which time he has lived at Midway,
where he has secured a large practice and is still engaged in planting to a
limited extent. In 1845 he married Mary Ann Flournoy, who was born in
Sandersville, Ga., and who died in 1889, the mother of seven children, of whom
five are living, viz.: Mary A., Clarence P., a planter, Lula, Anna, and Roberta.
Early in 1862, Dr. Caldwell raised a company of volunteers in Macon and Barbour
counties, of which he was commissioned captain. This company was attached to the
Forty-fifth Alabama regiment at Auburn, Ala., and went, to Tupelo, Miss., from
thence with Bragg on his raid through Kentucky, their first engagement taking
place at Perryville; they afterward went through Cumberland Gap, and on to
Knoxville, Tenn.; fought at Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and in all the
battles from Dalton to Atlanta and back with Hood, fighting at Spring Hill,
Franklin and Nashville, retreating to Corinth, Miss. The regiment was soon
afterward ordered to join Johnston in North Carolina; but on its reaching
Hamburg, S. C., Capt. Caldwell was sent back to Columbus, Ga., for recruits, and
on his way back again to his command with his new men he heard, when near
Hamburg, the news of the surrender, and immediately started for home, reaching
Eufaula just after the Federals had evacuated that town. The doctor, during his
war service, was thrice wounded in the thigh, in the breast, and in the
shoulder. A brother of the doctor, named Joshua, now deceased, also lent his aid
to his state as a soldier for a short time, but his failing health forced him to
withdraw. Dr. Caldwell resumed the practice of medicine after his return to
Midway, and is now one of the most popular physicians in the county. As a
citizen he is equally popular, and in 1876 was elected to the state legislature
as the first democratic representative from Bullock county; in 1878 he was
re-elected, but after that time declined further political honors. The doctor
has been a Mason for many years, was once worshipful master of Social lodge at
Enon, and also of Felix lodge at Midway. He has filled the position of president
of the Bullock County Medical society, is now a member of the American Medical
association, and is held in as high esteem by his professional brethren as he is
by the general public. M. J. Caldwell, his eldest son, when sixteen years old,
enlisted in the militia service of Alabama, was taken prisoner near Mobile, sent
to Ship island and kept for a time under negro guards.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 520-521

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