Dr. William Frederick Steuart, MD
1816 - 1889 (73 years)
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Name William Frederick Steuart Title Dr. Suffix MD Born 1 Jan 1816 Pemberton, West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA 
Gender Male Residence Baltimore, Maryland [1] Residence 1850 District 8, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [2] Residence 1860 District 4, Patuxent, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [3] Residence 1870 Baltimore Ward 6, Baltimore City, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland, USA [4] Residence 1874 Baltimore, Maryland, USA [5] Residence 1880 Catonsville, Baltimore, Maryland, USA [6] Died 10 Dec 1889 Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA - 120 West Fourth Street
Buried West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA [7] Person ID I22279 Brown Genealogy Last Modified 19 Sep 2024
Father Dr. Charles Calvert Steuart, MD, b. 21 Jan 1784, Pemberton, West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA , d. 1 Oct 1836, Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA (Age 52 years) Relationship natural Mother Ann Fitzhugh Biscoe, b. Abt 1786, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA , d. 26 Mar 1822, Pemberton, West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA (Age ~ 36 years) Relationship natural Married 1 Nov 1814 Prince George's County, Maryland, USA [8] Family ID F7562 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Anne Hall, b. Abt 1826, West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA , d. 5 Nov 1887, Mount Washington, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA (Age ~ 61 years) Married 24 Feb 1840 Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA [9] Children 1. Capt. Henry Augustus Steuart, b. 2 Dec 1840, Pemberton, West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA , d. 11 May 1862, Washington, District of Columbia, USA (Age 21 years) [natural]2. Richard Estep Steuart, b. 4 Sep 1849, Holly Hill, West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA , d. 16 Apr 1924, Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA (Age 74 years) [natural]3. Charles Steuart, b. 20 Jan 1842, Saint James Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA , d. Nov 1842, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA (Age 0 years) [natural]4. William Frederick Steuart, Jr., b. 1843, West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA , d. 1902, Brunswick, Brunswick, Glynn, Georgia, USA (Age 59 years) [natural]5. Anne Steuart, b. 1845, West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA , d. 1848, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA (Age 3 years) [natural]6. Louis Edward Steuart, b. Abt 1846, West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA , d. 1917, Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA (Age ~ 71 years) [natural]7. Charles Steuart, b. 1847, West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA , d. 1853, West River, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA (Age 6 years) [natural]8. Mary Stevenson Steuart, b. 1851, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA , d. 31 Jan 1897, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA (Age 46 years) [natural]9. Eleanor Steuart, b. 21 Jun 1856, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA , d. 22 Sep 1906, Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA (Age 50 years) [natural]10. George Biscoe Steuart, b. 1857, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA , d. 1 Jul 1927, Baltimore, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA (Age 70 years) [natural]11. Dr. Cecilius Calvert Steuart, Sr MD, b. 29 Jul 1861, Patuxent Forge, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA , d. 14 Feb 1919, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (Age 57 years) [natural]Last Modified 19 Sep 2024 Family ID F7572 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Married 24 Feb 1840 Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA [9] Last Modified 19 Sep 2024 Family ID F7597 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - William Frederick Steuart was a Maryland-born medical doctor who served in the Confederate States Army on the staff of General Robert E Lee, during the American Civil War. He was a surgeon in the 3rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, a unit that formed part of the brigade commanded by his cousin, General George H. Steuart. After the war he returned to Maryland and served as resident physician at the Maryland Hospital for the Insane, an institution founded largely thanks to the efforts of another cousin, Dr. Richard Sprigg Steuart.
Early life
Steuart was born on January 1, 1816, in West River, Anne Arundel County, the son of Maryland physician Charles Calvert Steuart and his wife Anne Fitzhugh Biscoe. He was only six years old when his mother died and 20 when his father died. His grandfather was the Maryland physician Charles Mark Steuart and his great-grandfather was the planter and politician George Hume Steuart.
In the will of William Steuart (great-uncle to the currect William Frederick Steuart), probated in 1838, William F Steuart is guaranteed to inherit the estate of Aberdeen upon the death of his uncle George H Steuart. The date of the death of George H Steuart is unknown, so it's not known exactly when this William F Steuart inherited Aberdeen.
On 27 February 1840, William Steuart married Anne Hall, the daughter of Henry Hall and Mary Stevenson, with whom he had a large family.
Civil War
Like other members of the Steuart family, Steuart supported the southern slavery cause. On the outbreak of war, he chose to flee his home state of Maryland, which remained in the Union, to join the rebels. As a Confederate sympathiser he had been closely watched by the authorities in Maryland. One of his sons was arrested and imprisoned, and shot dead while attempting to escape, hardening Steuart's own views against the Union.
Steuart and his wife fled their home state and joined the Confederate cause with around $20,000 in paper and precious metal which they smuggled out of Maryland, rolling up bills of exchange and hiding them in their belongings. They promptly invested their small fortune in Confederate bonds, so certain were they of Southern success in the war.
Steuart served as a surgeon in the 3rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, a unit that mustered at Garysburg, North Carolina, in May, 1861 and formed part of the brigade commanded by his cousin, General George Hume Steuart.
In 1862, his eldest son Captain Henry "Harry" August Steuart was captured while running medical supplies to the Confederacy, and killed.
Despite being "esteemed by officers and men" in the regiment, it appears that army life was too much for him, as the "rigors of march" and the "hardships of camp" eventually obliged him to apply to be posted away from front line duty. This may have been due to his age; Steuart was around 50 years of age when he joined the Southern armies.
After the War
Maryland Hospital for the Insane at Spring Grove.
After the war, Steuart returned to Maryland and private practice, where he became resident physician at the Maryland Hospital for the Insane, a pioneering institution dedicated to the care of mental illness which had been founded largely thanks to the efforts of his cousin, Richard Sprigg Steuart.
William Steuart died on December 10, 1889, and was buried in Christ Church, Owensville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
(Wikipedia, edited to remove biased santizing language regarding support for slavery)
- William Frederick Steuart was a Maryland-born medical doctor who served in the Confederate States Army on the staff of General Robert E Lee, during the American Civil War. He was a surgeon in the 3rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, a unit that formed part of the brigade commanded by his cousin, General George H. Steuart. After the war he returned to Maryland and served as resident physician at the Maryland Hospital for the Insane, an institution founded largely thanks to the efforts of another cousin, Dr. Richard Sprigg Steuart.
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