Emmett Arrington Drewry, student 1855-1856

Drewry attended the Medical College of Virginia after leaving R-MC and graduated in 1860 from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He was practicing medicine in Southampton County, VA when he enlisted as a private in Co. B of the 9th VA Infantry on September 20, 1861. He was commissioned 2nd lieutenant on May 8, 1862. From August -December 1862 he was enrolling conscripts, and was commanding the company in April 1863.  He resigned on August 25, 1863. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon in February 1864 with the rank to date back to August 4, 1863. He had been required to report for hospital duty on August 10, 1863, and starting on August 11, 1863, he served first in the Poplar Lawn hospital and then in the South Carolina hospital, both in Petersburg, VA. On October 11, 1864, he was relieved from duty in Petersburg, VA and sent to North Carolina, where he worked in hospitals in Salisbury, Greensboro, and Raleigh. He was captured while on duty at the hospital in Raleigh, NC on April 13, 1865 and paroled on May 11, 1865.

Drewry returned to Southampton County, VA and practiced medicine after the war. He died July 8, 1891 and is buried in the Drewry Family cemetery in Drewryville, in Southampton County, VA.