University of Maryland Baltimore Dental School - Mirror Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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In Memoriam The darkness of death is Hke the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. When God in His Almight} Providence took from our midst Dr. Thomas Sargent Latimer, he took one of our most beloved professors. Thomas Sargent Latimer was born in Savannah, Geoi-gia, on June 15, 1839, and died in the city of Baltimore on May 16, 1906. His was the son of William Geddes Latimer, who died in Savannah in 1845, after w-hich period his family removed to Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania, and it was there that Thomas Latimer passed his youth. His early education was started at Shrewsbury Academy and was completed at a larger institution at York, Pennsylvania. At the age of eighteen he began the study of medicine, matriculating at the University of Maryland and graduating from that institution in the spring of 1861. Through study, convictions, and associations his sympathies were ear y enlisted with the South. A marked instance is shown here in the fact that his surroundings from the time he was five years of age were of an entirely different character and in an entirely different atmosphere from that of his boyhood and early manhood, he espoused the cause of the Southern Confederacy from a thorough conviction that the principles of the Lost Cause were just and right. He enlisted in May, 1861, as a private in the company commanded by Captain E. R. Dorsey of the First Maryland Infantry, and served with gallantry until his pro- motion and appointment as assistant surgeon in November, 1861. His next service was in the medical corps of the Army of Northern Virginia and his marked ability was recognized by promotion to the rank of full surgeon, by assignment to duty in charge of hospitals, as assistant medical purveyor of the army and other posts, requiring skill and intelligent business qualities. He was a participant in the first battle of Manassas, in the battles of the Valley Campaign of 1862, under Jackson, the Seven Days ' Battle in front of Richmond, including Gaines ' Mill, Malvern Hill, second battle of Manassas, Fredericksburg and the Spottsylvania campaign. His career as a soldier was closed with the surrender of the Army of the Confed- eracy. As a soldier, he was bold, intrepid, thoroughly cool, obedient and brave. As an army surgeon these same qualities were exemplified in the daily life. Self- sacrifice seemed to have been the key notes for his rule of life. 5