Robert Iverson Hicks

Son of a prosperous doctor, in 1860 he was a 28 year old physician living next door to his parents at Henderson in Granville County, NC. He was commissioned Surgeon on 12 or 19 July 1861 and mustered with the 13th North Carolina Infantry (Volunteers). They were re-designated the 23rd North Carolina Infantry (State Troops) on 14 November 1861.

He was with his regiment in Maryland and treated wounded soldiers on 14 September 1862 at Fox's Gap on on South Mountain.

He was detailed as Brigade Surgeon on 1 October 1862 and served with Generals Rodes and Early to the end of the war. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1870 he was a physician living with his wife, parents, siblings, and servants at Henderson, NC. He moved to Virginia in 1878 and by 1880 and to at least 1920, then 87 years old, was a physician at Warrenton in Fauquier County.

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, indexed as Robert J. Hicks. One of his patients on South Mountain was Private Waterman Fipps of the 20th North Carolina. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1920, and his obituary in the Confederate Veteran of May 1921 (Vol. 29, No. 5). His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Nancy Fitzhugh Randolph (1837-1891) of Fauquier County, VA in January 1865 and they had 6 children.

His son John Ravenswood Hicks (b. 1872) was a Major in the US Army Medical Department at his death of disease in France in January 1919.

12/31/1831; Granville County, NC

10/16/1920; Washington, DC; burial in Warrenton Cemetery, Warrenton, VA