Father: Archibald Atkinson
Mother: Elizabeth Ann Atkinson
12/09/1850 - Lived with parents, Smithfield, Isle of Wight Co., VA
- Attended, Lynchburg Military Institute
1859 - Attended, William and Mary College
08/26/1860 - Lived with parents, Smithfield, Isle of Wight Co., VA
1861 - Lived, Burwell's Bay, near Smithfield, Isle of Wight Co., VA
04/00/1861 - Enlisted, Pvt., Co. K, 3rd VA Infantry
04/00/1861 - Served as Drillmaster, 3rd VA Infantry
07/13/1861 - 2nd Lt., Provisional Army of Virginia - "awaits orders"
10/02/1861 - Discharged from Co. K, 3rd VA Infantry
10/02/1861 - Enlisted as Pvt., 5th VA Cavalry (12 months), Burwell's Bay, VA [?Camp Lookout]
10/31/1861 - Mustered into service, Burwell's Bay, near Smithfield, VA
12/00/1861 - Pvt., 5th VA Cavalry (12 months)
02/00/1862 - Absent from 5th VA Cavalry (12 months) as a vidette, Smithfield, VA
04/00/1862 - Absent from 5th VA Cavalry (12 months) on sick leave
05/06/1862 - Patient as Pvt., 3rd VA Cavalry, C.S.A. Gen. Hospital, Danville, VA (diagnosis: hydrocele)
05/14/1862 - Patient as Pvt., 3rd VA Cavalry, Chimborazo Hospital No. 5, Richmond, VA (diagnosis: diarrhea)
08/13/1862 - Transferred to Co. K, 13th VA Cavalry
09/00/1862 - Pvt., Co. K, 13th VA Cavalry
09/01/1862 - Appointed, Hospital Steward, by the Confederate Secretary of War
09/06/1862 - Detailed by order of the Confederate Secretary of War as Hospital Steward, 10th VA Cavalry [S.O. 209/2]
10/04/1862 - Admitted as a patient, Confederate Hospital, Culpeper, VA (diagnosis: hydrocele)
10/05/1862 - Transferred as a patient from Confederate Hospital, Culpeper, VA, to C.S.A. Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
01/00/1863 - Learned that he had been "appointed" as a Hospital Steward in 1862, but "being at that time on sick furlough", did not receive notice
02/00/1863 - In a letter addressed to "His Excellency The President of the Confed. States, Richmond, Va", R. C. Atkinson writes, "I have the honor to inform you that having enlisted in the Cavalry service at the first of the war, I have been disabled hereby a certificate of which disability I herewith enclose. May I solicit of you an application to some position in which I can render service? I have no references and base my application on no claims of my own. My father Archibald Atkinson as well as my uncle, Genl R. H. Chilton, are I believe, among your personal acquaintances. I have the honor to be with high respect Your Obt Servt R. C. Atkinson" [On the back of the letter is docketing by Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, indicating that he referred this letter to his Secretary of War, "for consideration and advice."]
02/09/1863 - Returned from sick leave to duty as a Hospital Steward, 10th VA Cavalry
06/03/1863 - Described on a "Descriptive List and Account of Pay and Clothing" as having blue eyes, light hair, fair complexion, 5 ft. 9 in. with the occupation of "student"
07/00/1863 - As a Hospital Steward, assisted his brother, Asst. Surgeon Archibald Atkinson, care for wounded and sick soldiers from the Battle of Gettysburg, Williamsport, MD
08/07/1863 - Relieved from duty with the 10th VA Cavalry and assigned as Mess Steward, Way Hospital (a.k.a., Wayside Hospital), Lynchburg, VA [S.O. 193/1 Dept. & Army of Northern Virginia - Gen. Lee]
09/01/1863 - Appointed, Hospital Steward, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, by the Confederate Secretary of War
11/12/1863 - As Hospital Steward, Way Hospital, Lynchburg, VA, submits a requisition for "padlock for sugar box" to be paid for by the Hospital Fund
02/18/1864 - On leave from Lynchburg, VA
03/00/1864 - Mess Steward, Wayside Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
05/00/1864 - Mess Steward, Wayside Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
08/01/1864 - Hospital Steward, Wayside Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
09/00/1864 - Hospital Steward ("Commissary"), Way Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
10/00/1864 - Hospital Steward, Way Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
10/16/1864 - "So much of Paragraph II, Special Orders No. 209, September 6, 1862, Adjutant and Inspector-General's Office, as refers to Robert C. Atkinson, hospital steward, Provisional Army Confederate States, is hereby revoked, and Private Atkinson will rejoin his command--third Virginia Cavalry." [S.O. 245/28]
10/31/1864 - Ordered by the Adjutant and Inspector General to report to his old regiment [Pvt., 13th VA Cavalry] for duty as a soldier
12/15/1864 - Service as Pvt., J.W. Carter's Co., Chew's Battery of Horse Artillery [VA]
04/30/1865 - Paroled by U.S. Army, Isle of Wight Co, VA
1867 - M.D. degree, Medical Department of the University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA (from: VA)
1874 - Practiced medicine, St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
01/03/1875 - Married, Mary Landy Bull, St. Louis Co., MO (she died in 1939)
1880 - Practiced medicine, St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO (living with wife, Mary, and three children)
1886 - Practiced medicine, St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
1890 - Practiced medicine, 2007 Lafayette Ave., St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
1896 - Practiced medicine, 3002 Lafayette Ave., St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
- Member, St. Louis Medical Society
- Professor, Theory and Practice of Medicine, The Marion-Sims College of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
1900 - Practiced medicine, 3002 Lafayette, Ave., St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO (living with wife, Mary, a son, a daughter, a mother in law, & a brother in law)
06/03/1907 - Acting Commander, Camp St. Louis [MO], No. 731, United Confederate Veterans
1910 - Practiced medicine, 1703 Pennsylvania Ave., St. Louis, MO (living with wife, Mary, a son, and a daughter)
12/31/1917 - Died, St Louis, MO
This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
03/16/2015. Unpublished database.
The following biographical information was added by Connie Nisinger:
Lieutenant Atkinson served in the 3rd Virginia Cavalry (3rd Infantry, 13th Virginia Cavalry, 10th Virginia Cavalry, Chew's Battery of Horse Artillery). He was attending William & Mary College when the war began & served as cadet drillmaster until he joined the 3rd Virginia Cavalry as a private. He participated in the 7 Days War, Gettysburg until the end of the war. He set up a medical practice in St. Louis after the Civil War & often refused payment for services he performed for the needy.
Mother: Elizabeth Ann Atkinson
12/09/1850 - Lived with parents, Smithfield, Isle of Wight Co., VA
- Attended, Lynchburg Military Institute
1859 - Attended, William and Mary College
08/26/1860 - Lived with parents, Smithfield, Isle of Wight Co., VA
1861 - Lived, Burwell's Bay, near Smithfield, Isle of Wight Co., VA
04/00/1861 - Enlisted, Pvt., Co. K, 3rd VA Infantry
04/00/1861 - Served as Drillmaster, 3rd VA Infantry
07/13/1861 - 2nd Lt., Provisional Army of Virginia - "awaits orders"
10/02/1861 - Discharged from Co. K, 3rd VA Infantry
10/02/1861 - Enlisted as Pvt., 5th VA Cavalry (12 months), Burwell's Bay, VA [?Camp Lookout]
10/31/1861 - Mustered into service, Burwell's Bay, near Smithfield, VA
12/00/1861 - Pvt., 5th VA Cavalry (12 months)
02/00/1862 - Absent from 5th VA Cavalry (12 months) as a vidette, Smithfield, VA
04/00/1862 - Absent from 5th VA Cavalry (12 months) on sick leave
05/06/1862 - Patient as Pvt., 3rd VA Cavalry, C.S.A. Gen. Hospital, Danville, VA (diagnosis: hydrocele)
05/14/1862 - Patient as Pvt., 3rd VA Cavalry, Chimborazo Hospital No. 5, Richmond, VA (diagnosis: diarrhea)
08/13/1862 - Transferred to Co. K, 13th VA Cavalry
09/00/1862 - Pvt., Co. K, 13th VA Cavalry
09/01/1862 - Appointed, Hospital Steward, by the Confederate Secretary of War
09/06/1862 - Detailed by order of the Confederate Secretary of War as Hospital Steward, 10th VA Cavalry [S.O. 209/2]
10/04/1862 - Admitted as a patient, Confederate Hospital, Culpeper, VA (diagnosis: hydrocele)
10/05/1862 - Transferred as a patient from Confederate Hospital, Culpeper, VA, to C.S.A. Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
01/00/1863 - Learned that he had been "appointed" as a Hospital Steward in 1862, but "being at that time on sick furlough", did not receive notice
02/00/1863 - In a letter addressed to "His Excellency The President of the Confed. States, Richmond, Va", R. C. Atkinson writes, "I have the honor to inform you that having enlisted in the Cavalry service at the first of the war, I have been disabled hereby a certificate of which disability I herewith enclose. May I solicit of you an application to some position in which I can render service? I have no references and base my application on no claims of my own. My father Archibald Atkinson as well as my uncle, Genl R. H. Chilton, are I believe, among your personal acquaintances. I have the honor to be with high respect Your Obt Servt R. C. Atkinson" [On the back of the letter is docketing by Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, indicating that he referred this letter to his Secretary of War, "for consideration and advice."]
02/09/1863 - Returned from sick leave to duty as a Hospital Steward, 10th VA Cavalry
06/03/1863 - Described on a "Descriptive List and Account of Pay and Clothing" as having blue eyes, light hair, fair complexion, 5 ft. 9 in. with the occupation of "student"
07/00/1863 - As a Hospital Steward, assisted his brother, Asst. Surgeon Archibald Atkinson, care for wounded and sick soldiers from the Battle of Gettysburg, Williamsport, MD
08/07/1863 - Relieved from duty with the 10th VA Cavalry and assigned as Mess Steward, Way Hospital (a.k.a., Wayside Hospital), Lynchburg, VA [S.O. 193/1 Dept. & Army of Northern Virginia - Gen. Lee]
09/01/1863 - Appointed, Hospital Steward, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, by the Confederate Secretary of War
11/12/1863 - As Hospital Steward, Way Hospital, Lynchburg, VA, submits a requisition for "padlock for sugar box" to be paid for by the Hospital Fund
02/18/1864 - On leave from Lynchburg, VA
03/00/1864 - Mess Steward, Wayside Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
05/00/1864 - Mess Steward, Wayside Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
08/01/1864 - Hospital Steward, Wayside Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
09/00/1864 - Hospital Steward ("Commissary"), Way Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
10/00/1864 - Hospital Steward, Way Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
10/16/1864 - "So much of Paragraph II, Special Orders No. 209, September 6, 1862, Adjutant and Inspector-General's Office, as refers to Robert C. Atkinson, hospital steward, Provisional Army Confederate States, is hereby revoked, and Private Atkinson will rejoin his command--third Virginia Cavalry." [S.O. 245/28]
10/31/1864 - Ordered by the Adjutant and Inspector General to report to his old regiment [Pvt., 13th VA Cavalry] for duty as a soldier
12/15/1864 - Service as Pvt., J.W. Carter's Co., Chew's Battery of Horse Artillery [VA]
04/30/1865 - Paroled by U.S. Army, Isle of Wight Co, VA
1867 - M.D. degree, Medical Department of the University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA (from: VA)
1874 - Practiced medicine, St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
01/03/1875 - Married, Mary Landy Bull, St. Louis Co., MO (she died in 1939)
1880 - Practiced medicine, St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO (living with wife, Mary, and three children)
1886 - Practiced medicine, St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
1890 - Practiced medicine, 2007 Lafayette Ave., St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
1896 - Practiced medicine, 3002 Lafayette Ave., St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
- Member, St. Louis Medical Society
- Professor, Theory and Practice of Medicine, The Marion-Sims College of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
1900 - Practiced medicine, 3002 Lafayette, Ave., St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO (living with wife, Mary, a son, a daughter, a mother in law, & a brother in law)
06/03/1907 - Acting Commander, Camp St. Louis [MO], No. 731, United Confederate Veterans
1910 - Practiced medicine, 1703 Pennsylvania Ave., St. Louis, MO (living with wife, Mary, a son, and a daughter)
12/31/1917 - Died, St Louis, MO
This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
03/16/2015. Unpublished database.
The following biographical information was added by Connie Nisinger:
Lieutenant Atkinson served in the 3rd Virginia Cavalry (3rd Infantry, 13th Virginia Cavalry, 10th Virginia Cavalry, Chew's Battery of Horse Artillery). He was attending William & Mary College when the war began & served as cadet drillmaster until he joined the 3rd Virginia Cavalry as a private. He participated in the 7 Days War, Gettysburg until the end of the war. He set up a medical practice in St. Louis after the Civil War & often refused payment for services he performed for the needy.
Father: Archibald Atkinson
Mother: Elizabeth Ann Atkinson
12/09/1850 - Lived with parents, Smithfield, Isle of Wight Co., VA
- Attended, Lynchburg Military Institute
1859 - Attended, William and Mary College
08/26/1860 - Lived with parents, Smithfield, Isle of Wight Co., VA
1861 - Lived, Burwell's Bay, near Smithfield, Isle of Wight Co., VA
04/00/1861 - Enlisted, Pvt., Co. K, 3rd VA Infantry
04/00/1861 - Served as Drillmaster, 3rd VA Infantry
07/13/1861 - 2nd Lt., Provisional Army of Virginia - "awaits orders"
10/02/1861 - Discharged from Co. K, 3rd VA Infantry
10/02/1861 - Enlisted as Pvt., 5th VA Cavalry (12 months), Burwell's Bay, VA [?Camp Lookout]
10/31/1861 - Mustered into service, Burwell's Bay, near Smithfield, VA
12/00/1861 - Pvt., 5th VA Cavalry (12 months)
02/00/1862 - Absent from 5th VA Cavalry (12 months) as a vidette, Smithfield, VA
04/00/1862 - Absent from 5th VA Cavalry (12 months) on sick leave
05/06/1862 - Patient as Pvt., 3rd VA Cavalry, C.S.A. Gen. Hospital, Danville, VA (diagnosis: hydrocele)
05/14/1862 - Patient as Pvt., 3rd VA Cavalry, Chimborazo Hospital No. 5, Richmond, VA (diagnosis: diarrhea)
08/13/1862 - Transferred to Co. K, 13th VA Cavalry
09/00/1862 - Pvt., Co. K, 13th VA Cavalry
09/01/1862 - Appointed, Hospital Steward, by the Confederate Secretary of War
09/06/1862 - Detailed by order of the Confederate Secretary of War as Hospital Steward, 10th VA Cavalry [S.O. 209/2]
10/04/1862 - Admitted as a patient, Confederate Hospital, Culpeper, VA (diagnosis: hydrocele)
10/05/1862 - Transferred as a patient from Confederate Hospital, Culpeper, VA, to C.S.A. Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
01/00/1863 - Learned that he had been "appointed" as a Hospital Steward in 1862, but "being at that time on sick furlough", did not receive notice
02/00/1863 - In a letter addressed to "His Excellency The President of the Confed. States, Richmond, Va", R. C. Atkinson writes, "I have the honor to inform you that having enlisted in the Cavalry service at the first of the war, I have been disabled hereby a certificate of which disability I herewith enclose. May I solicit of you an application to some position in which I can render service? I have no references and base my application on no claims of my own. My father Archibald Atkinson as well as my uncle, Genl R. H. Chilton, are I believe, among your personal acquaintances. I have the honor to be with high respect Your Obt Servt R. C. Atkinson" [On the back of the letter is docketing by Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, indicating that he referred this letter to his Secretary of War, "for consideration and advice."]
02/09/1863 - Returned from sick leave to duty as a Hospital Steward, 10th VA Cavalry
06/03/1863 - Described on a "Descriptive List and Account of Pay and Clothing" as having blue eyes, light hair, fair complexion, 5 ft. 9 in. with the occupation of "student"
07/00/1863 - As a Hospital Steward, assisted his brother, Asst. Surgeon Archibald Atkinson, care for wounded and sick soldiers from the Battle of Gettysburg, Williamsport, MD
08/07/1863 - Relieved from duty with the 10th VA Cavalry and assigned as Mess Steward, Way Hospital (a.k.a., Wayside Hospital), Lynchburg, VA [S.O. 193/1 Dept. & Army of Northern Virginia - Gen. Lee]
09/01/1863 - Appointed, Hospital Steward, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, by the Confederate Secretary of War
11/12/1863 - As Hospital Steward, Way Hospital, Lynchburg, VA, submits a requisition for "padlock for sugar box" to be paid for by the Hospital Fund
02/18/1864 - On leave from Lynchburg, VA
03/00/1864 - Mess Steward, Wayside Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
05/00/1864 - Mess Steward, Wayside Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
08/01/1864 - Hospital Steward, Wayside Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
09/00/1864 - Hospital Steward ("Commissary"), Way Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
10/00/1864 - Hospital Steward, Way Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
10/16/1864 - "So much of Paragraph II, Special Orders No. 209, September 6, 1862, Adjutant and Inspector-General's Office, as refers to Robert C. Atkinson, hospital steward, Provisional Army Confederate States, is hereby revoked, and Private Atkinson will rejoin his command--third Virginia Cavalry." [S.O. 245/28]
10/31/1864 - Ordered by the Adjutant and Inspector General to report to his old regiment [Pvt., 13th VA Cavalry] for duty as a soldier
12/15/1864 - Service as Pvt., J.W. Carter's Co., Chew's Battery of Horse Artillery [VA]
04/30/1865 - Paroled by U.S. Army, Isle of Wight Co, VA
1867 - M.D. degree, Medical Department of the University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA (from: VA)
1874 - Practiced medicine, St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
01/03/1875 - Married, Mary Landy Bull, St. Louis Co., MO (she died in 1939)
1880 - Practiced medicine, St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO (living with wife, Mary, and three children)
1886 - Practiced medicine, St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
1890 - Practiced medicine, 2007 Lafayette Ave., St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
1896 - Practiced medicine, 3002 Lafayette Ave., St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
- Member, St. Louis Medical Society
- Professor, Theory and Practice of Medicine, The Marion-Sims College of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
1900 - Practiced medicine, 3002 Lafayette, Ave., St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO (living with wife, Mary, a son, a daughter, a mother in law, & a brother in law)
06/03/1907 - Acting Commander, Camp St. Louis [MO], No. 731, United Confederate Veterans
1910 - Practiced medicine, 1703 Pennsylvania Ave., St. Louis, MO (living with wife, Mary, a son, and a daughter)
12/31/1917 - Died, St Louis, MO
This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
03/16/2015. Unpublished database.
The following biographical information was added by Connie Nisinger:
Lieutenant Atkinson served in the 3rd Virginia Cavalry (3rd Infantry, 13th Virginia Cavalry, 10th Virginia Cavalry, Chew's Battery of Horse Artillery). He was attending William & Mary College when the war began & served as cadet drillmaster until he joined the 3rd Virginia Cavalry as a private. He participated in the 7 Days War, Gettysburg until the end of the war. He set up a medical practice in St. Louis after the Civil War & often refused payment for services he performed for the needy.
Mother: Elizabeth Ann Atkinson
12/09/1850 - Lived with parents, Smithfield, Isle of Wight Co., VA
- Attended, Lynchburg Military Institute
1859 - Attended, William and Mary College
08/26/1860 - Lived with parents, Smithfield, Isle of Wight Co., VA
1861 - Lived, Burwell's Bay, near Smithfield, Isle of Wight Co., VA
04/00/1861 - Enlisted, Pvt., Co. K, 3rd VA Infantry
04/00/1861 - Served as Drillmaster, 3rd VA Infantry
07/13/1861 - 2nd Lt., Provisional Army of Virginia - "awaits orders"
10/02/1861 - Discharged from Co. K, 3rd VA Infantry
10/02/1861 - Enlisted as Pvt., 5th VA Cavalry (12 months), Burwell's Bay, VA [?Camp Lookout]
10/31/1861 - Mustered into service, Burwell's Bay, near Smithfield, VA
12/00/1861 - Pvt., 5th VA Cavalry (12 months)
02/00/1862 - Absent from 5th VA Cavalry (12 months) as a vidette, Smithfield, VA
04/00/1862 - Absent from 5th VA Cavalry (12 months) on sick leave
05/06/1862 - Patient as Pvt., 3rd VA Cavalry, C.S.A. Gen. Hospital, Danville, VA (diagnosis: hydrocele)
05/14/1862 - Patient as Pvt., 3rd VA Cavalry, Chimborazo Hospital No. 5, Richmond, VA (diagnosis: diarrhea)
08/13/1862 - Transferred to Co. K, 13th VA Cavalry
09/00/1862 - Pvt., Co. K, 13th VA Cavalry
09/01/1862 - Appointed, Hospital Steward, by the Confederate Secretary of War
09/06/1862 - Detailed by order of the Confederate Secretary of War as Hospital Steward, 10th VA Cavalry [S.O. 209/2]
10/04/1862 - Admitted as a patient, Confederate Hospital, Culpeper, VA (diagnosis: hydrocele)
10/05/1862 - Transferred as a patient from Confederate Hospital, Culpeper, VA, to C.S.A. Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
01/00/1863 - Learned that he had been "appointed" as a Hospital Steward in 1862, but "being at that time on sick furlough", did not receive notice
02/00/1863 - In a letter addressed to "His Excellency The President of the Confed. States, Richmond, Va", R. C. Atkinson writes, "I have the honor to inform you that having enlisted in the Cavalry service at the first of the war, I have been disabled hereby a certificate of which disability I herewith enclose. May I solicit of you an application to some position in which I can render service? I have no references and base my application on no claims of my own. My father Archibald Atkinson as well as my uncle, Genl R. H. Chilton, are I believe, among your personal acquaintances. I have the honor to be with high respect Your Obt Servt R. C. Atkinson" [On the back of the letter is docketing by Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, indicating that he referred this letter to his Secretary of War, "for consideration and advice."]
02/09/1863 - Returned from sick leave to duty as a Hospital Steward, 10th VA Cavalry
06/03/1863 - Described on a "Descriptive List and Account of Pay and Clothing" as having blue eyes, light hair, fair complexion, 5 ft. 9 in. with the occupation of "student"
07/00/1863 - As a Hospital Steward, assisted his brother, Asst. Surgeon Archibald Atkinson, care for wounded and sick soldiers from the Battle of Gettysburg, Williamsport, MD
08/07/1863 - Relieved from duty with the 10th VA Cavalry and assigned as Mess Steward, Way Hospital (a.k.a., Wayside Hospital), Lynchburg, VA [S.O. 193/1 Dept. & Army of Northern Virginia - Gen. Lee]
09/01/1863 - Appointed, Hospital Steward, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, by the Confederate Secretary of War
11/12/1863 - As Hospital Steward, Way Hospital, Lynchburg, VA, submits a requisition for "padlock for sugar box" to be paid for by the Hospital Fund
02/18/1864 - On leave from Lynchburg, VA
03/00/1864 - Mess Steward, Wayside Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
05/00/1864 - Mess Steward, Wayside Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
08/01/1864 - Hospital Steward, Wayside Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
09/00/1864 - Hospital Steward ("Commissary"), Way Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
10/00/1864 - Hospital Steward, Way Hospital, Lynchburg, VA
10/16/1864 - "So much of Paragraph II, Special Orders No. 209, September 6, 1862, Adjutant and Inspector-General's Office, as refers to Robert C. Atkinson, hospital steward, Provisional Army Confederate States, is hereby revoked, and Private Atkinson will rejoin his command--third Virginia Cavalry." [S.O. 245/28]
10/31/1864 - Ordered by the Adjutant and Inspector General to report to his old regiment [Pvt., 13th VA Cavalry] for duty as a soldier
12/15/1864 - Service as Pvt., J.W. Carter's Co., Chew's Battery of Horse Artillery [VA]
04/30/1865 - Paroled by U.S. Army, Isle of Wight Co, VA
1867 - M.D. degree, Medical Department of the University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA (from: VA)
1874 - Practiced medicine, St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
01/03/1875 - Married, Mary Landy Bull, St. Louis Co., MO (she died in 1939)
1880 - Practiced medicine, St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO (living with wife, Mary, and three children)
1886 - Practiced medicine, St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
1890 - Practiced medicine, 2007 Lafayette Ave., St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
1896 - Practiced medicine, 3002 Lafayette Ave., St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO
- Member, St. Louis Medical Society
- Professor, Theory and Practice of Medicine, The Marion-Sims College of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
1900 - Practiced medicine, 3002 Lafayette, Ave., St. Louis, St. Louis Co., MO (living with wife, Mary, a son, a daughter, a mother in law, & a brother in law)
06/03/1907 - Acting Commander, Camp St. Louis [MO], No. 731, United Confederate Veterans
1910 - Practiced medicine, 1703 Pennsylvania Ave., St. Louis, MO (living with wife, Mary, a son, and a daughter)
12/31/1917 - Died, St Louis, MO
This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
03/16/2015. Unpublished database.
The following biographical information was added by Connie Nisinger:
Lieutenant Atkinson served in the 3rd Virginia Cavalry (3rd Infantry, 13th Virginia Cavalry, 10th Virginia Cavalry, Chew's Battery of Horse Artillery). He was attending William & Mary College when the war began & served as cadet drillmaster until he joined the 3rd Virginia Cavalry as a private. He participated in the 7 Days War, Gettysburg until the end of the war. He set up a medical practice in St. Louis after the Civil War & often refused payment for services he performed for the needy.
Bio by: Connie Nisinger
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