Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Foreword by George W. Comstock
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 By What Name?
- 2 Origins
- 3 Marshall
- 4 Health of the People
- 5 Drink No Longer Water
- 6 Susan
- 7 Dread Diseases
- 8 Baltimore
- 9 Professor
- 10 Epidemiologist
- 11 Sunset and Evening Star
- Bibliography of Publications by Wade Hampton Frost
- Abbreviations of Scientific Journal Titles
- Notes
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Foreword by George W. Comstock
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 By What Name?
- 2 Origins
- 3 Marshall
- 4 Health of the People
- 5 Drink No Longer Water
- 6 Susan
- 7 Dread Diseases
- 8 Baltimore
- 9 Professor
- 10 Epidemiologist
- 11 Sunset and Evening Star
- Bibliography of Publications by Wade Hampton Frost
- Abbreviations of Scientific Journal Titles
- Notes
- Index
Summary
By him we shall be judged.
—Wade Hampton Frost“By what name shall this child be called?”
The sun streamed in through the window of Trinity Church in Marshall, Virginia. It was a warm Sunday morning in 1880. Dr. Henry Frost was lost in reverie, his mind wandering in the past and paying scant attention to the words of the minister who was about to baptize his seventh child. Perhaps he was tired from an all-night vigil with a dying patient. Again, the minister’s voice intoned, “By what name…”
“Wade Hampton,” said the father, starting from his inattention and speaking the name of the confederate general under whom he had served and to whom his mind had strayed during the service. Thus did Wade Hampton Frost acquire his name. Or so it was repeatedly told in the Frost family.
Or perhaps, one might suppose, Henry Frost really did intend to name his son for the Civil War confederate hero. What might that have meant to the father? And what might it later have meant to the son? Wade Hampton was the most famous South Carolinian of the time. A big, handsome, imposing man, an enormously wealthy cotton plantation owner, an expert horseman facile with weapons of the hunt, Wade Hampton was not a secessionist, but when the Civil War erupted he accepted a commission and quickly raised a legion of his fellow citizens of South Carolina. He trained these men and led them north to the front, where they distinguished themselves, as did he, often outperforming the gray-clad troops led by other confederate officers who had learned their military command skills at West Point. Ultimately, Wade Hampton was promoted to lieutenant general and served in command of all of the confederate cavalry forces. He led his troops, Henry Frost among them, from the front of the battle, and was loved by them. At the Battle of Gettysburg he was severely wounded and evacuated first to Charlottesville, Virginia, and later to his home in South Carolina. Although he is sometimes portrayed as sterner than other confederate officers, a letter to his wife commenting on a deep head wound reveals a whimsical sense of humor.
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- Wade Hampton Frost, Pioneer Epidemiologist 1880-1938Up to the Mountain, pp. 1 - 4Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2004