Father: Elijah Patton, Jr. (1793-1831)
Mother: Nancy Ann Watson (1800-1857)
1846 - Married, Emeline Eliza Trout (she died in 1888)
1850 - Practiced medicine, Subdivision No. 30, Floyd Co., GA
1851 - M.D. degree, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
1854 - Moved to near Quitman, Wood Co., TX
1854 - Practiced medicine, near Quitman, Wood Co., TX
1858 - Worshipful Master of the Masonic Lodge, Quitman, TX (2 years)
1860 - Practiced medicine, Precinct No. 3, Wood Co., TX (near Quitman)
03/01/1862 - Enlisted, 22nd TX Infantry, Tyler, TX
05/00/1862 - Pvt., Co. E, 22nd TX Infantry (Hubbard's)
1862 - Passed Confederate Army Board of Medical Examination for the position of Surgeon
06/17/1862 - Promoted to Surgeon, 22nd TX Infantry
11/00/1862 - Surgeon, 22nd TX Infantry, Bayou Metre [AR]
12/00/1862 - Surgeon, 22nd TX Infantry, Camp Walker [?TX]
05/30/1863 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 12/08/1862
06/01/1863 - Tendered resignation as Surgeon because of the "condition of my health" [cause: chronic ulceration of his bowels according to his Certificate of Disability]
01/30/1864 - Confirmed as Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
- Trans-Mississippi Department, Confederate States Army
1870 - Practiced medicine, Quitman Precinct No. 1, Wood Co., TX [indexed as A.L. Patton]
1880 - Practiced medicine, Precinct No. 2, Wood Co., TX
1885 - Member, Mineola City Council, Mineola, TX (2 years)
- City Health Officer, Mineola, TX
1886 - Practiced medicine, Mineola, Wood Co., TX
10/28/1888 - Wife, Emeline Eliza Patten, died
1890,1893,1896,1900 - Practiced medicine, Mineola, Wood Co., TX
07/12/1900 - Died, Mineola, Wood Co., TX

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
12/16/2013. Unpublished database.