Hugh Walker Gardner, student 1852-1853

Hugh Walker Gardner attended the University of North Carolina after leaving Randolph-Macon. He was a physician in North Carolina at the outbreak of the war, and enlisted as a private on August 13, 1861 in Co. G of the18th NC Infantry.On July 11, 1862 (effective May 31, 1862) he was promoted to surgeon and major in the Field and Staff of the 18th, transferring on July 15, 1862 to the 33rd NC Infantry. Dr. Gardner died September 7, 1862 from an abcess of the liver in Officerr's Hospital No. 10 in Richmond, VA possibly related to his having contracted "Chickahominy Fever," probably malaria, just after the Seven Days' Battles. He is buried in Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington, NC. his