Robert T. Royston

In 1860 he was an unmarried 35 year old physician living on the WA Sanders plantation at Morgan Spring, Perry County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 8 May 1861 as a Private in Company A, 8th Alabama Infantry. He was commissioned Assistant Surgeon on 17 June 1861 and promoted to Surgeon on 28 September. He was present at Yorktown, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines Mill, Fraziers Farm, and 2nd Manassas in 1862, acting as Brigade Surgeon for some of that period.

He treated wounded soldiers at a field hospital at Sharpsburg to at least 18 September 1862.

He was in all engagements with his regiment from Fredericksburg, VA in December 1862 to Gettysburg, PA in 1863, where he was senior brigade medical officer, and through Petersburg, VA in December 1864. He was surrendered with his regiment at Appomattox Courthouse, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 he was a doctor and lived with his brother, the former Colonel Young Royston on his farm at Marion in Perry County.

Basic information from State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1870, and the Catalog (1834-1872) of the Medical College of Louisiana. His death from a notice in the Marion Commonwealth of 8 November 1877.

There's a somewhat damaged pre-war daguerrotype of him at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.

c. 1825 in AL

11/07/1877; Perryville, AL