01/12/1832 - Born, Washington Co., GA [Father: John Hayes Allston (1786-1849);
Mother: Harriet Middleton Wilkinson (1792-1862)]
09/18/1849 - Father, John, died in Georgetown, SC
08/20/1850 - Student, Prince George Winyaw, Georgetown District, SC (lived with the
family of J. E. Allston; indexed in the 1850 U. S. Census as "Edmund F. Allston")
1854 - M.D. degree, Medical College of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (from: Georgetown, SC, before medical school); preceptor: Dr. T. L. Ogier; thesis: "Pneumonia")
04/16/1857 - Married Catherine Porcher Palmer (1835-1914), Ballsdam Plantation, Charleston Co., SC
07/02/1860 - Farmer, St. James Santee, Charleston Co., SC (lived with wife, Catherine, and two children; indexed in the 1860 U. S. Census as E. F. Allston)
10/30/1861 - Enlisted as 1st Lt., 4th SC Cavalry, South Santee, SC [Note: His company was initially called, "Capt. Thomas Pinckney's Company, and also, Co. A, St. James Mounted Riflemen, Byrd's Battalion." The company served as Company A, Manigault's Battalion, South Carolina Volunteers. Subsequently it became Company D, 4th South Carolina Cavalry.]
01/10/1862 - Sold corn and hay to an Acting Asst. Quartermaster, Confederate States Army [Note: He received payment in Charleston, SC, on 08/08/1862, as Dr. E. F. Allston.]
03/31/1862 - Sold hay to an Acting Asst. Quartermaster, Confederate States Army
06/30/1862 - 1st Lt., 4th SC Cavalry
08/11/1862 - 1st Lt., Co., D, 4th SC Cavalry, Camp Palmer, St. James Santee, SC
10/31/1862 - 1st Lt., Co., D, 4th SC Cavalry
12/31/1862 - 1st Lt., Co., D, 4th SC Cavalry
01/13/1863 - On a requisition for tents, axes, hatchets, mess pans, blankets and curry combs, he wrote as a justification, "The camp equipage, etc. issued when this company went into active service twelve months since has been condemned by a regularly appointed Board of Survey."
02/27/1863 - On a requisition for 80 cavalry uniforms, 80 stable frocks for mounted men, 12 overcoats, and 40 blankets, he wrote as a justification, "This company has not drawn uniforms since July 1862." [Note: He received 80 coats, 80 pairs of pants, and 40 blankets, but no stable frocks or overcoats.]
02/28/1863 - 1st Lt., Co., D, 4th SC Cavalry
04/30/1863 - 1st Lt., Co., D, 4th SC Cavalry
06/01/1863 - Stationed, McPhersonville, SC
06/25/1863-07/05/1863 - On furlough
08/25/1863 - In a letter written from McPhersonville, SC, to Capt. James Lowndes, Asst. Acting Adjutant General, "Capt., Having received an invitation from the Surgeon General to appear before the Medical Board at Charleston, with the view of standing an examination for the position of Ast. Surgeon in the army of the Confederate States, I respectfully request a leave of absence for thirty days in order to prepare for it. My object is to attend the hospitals. Very Respectfully, Yr Obt. Servt, E. F. Allston" [Docketing on the back of this letter reads, "Hd. Qrs, 3rd Mil. Dist., McPhersonville, Aug
27, 1863, "Under the peculiar circumstances of this case, this application is respectfully forwarded in the absence of the Maj. Gen. Commanding. James Lowndes, Capt, A. A. A. G."]
08/28/1863 - Leave granted [S. O. 166/1 Dept. of S.C., Ga., & Fla.
Gen. Beauregard]
08/31/1863 - 1st Lt., Co., D, 4th SC Cavalry
09/09/1863 - Granted furlough
09/27/1863 - Leave extended [S. O. 195/3 Dept. of S.C., Ga., & Fla.
Gen. Beauregard]
09/01/1863 - 1st Lt., Co., D, 4th SC Cavalry
09/31/1863 - In a letter written from Columbia, SC, to Gen. Jordan, Acting Adjutant General & Chief of Staff, Confederate States Army, "Thirty days being insufficient for the necessary preparation to appear before the medical examining board, I respectfully request an extension of thirty days more. Very Respectfully, Yr Obt Servt, E. F. Allston, 1st Lt., Co. D., 4 S C Cav" [Docketing on this letter reads, "Extend 30 days, T J."]
11/04/1863 - "The following named Medical Officers will report to Major General Sam Jones, Commanding, etc. at Dublin Depot, Virginia for assignment to duty: Asst. Surgeon Ed F. Allston; Asst. Surgeon A. H. Read; Assistant Surgeon Thos. D. Whitsides [sic - Thomas D. Whiteside]" [S.O. 262/3]
11/25/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Charleston, SC
02/02/1864 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 10/28/1863
02/02/1864 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon from SC by the Confederate States Senate
02/00/1864 - Prepared a Certificate of Disability for the case of W. T. Inglehart, 30th VA Battalion Sharpshooters
12/04/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Atlanta, GA
09/00/1864 - Reported [G. O. 71]
01/30/1865 - Asst. Surgeon, 51st VA Infantry, Gen. G. C. Wharton's Division, Army of Northern Virginia, camp near Waynesborough, VA
02/16/1865 - On a Certificate of Disability prepared at Camp, Forsberg Brigade, "I certify
that I have carefully examined Private Wm. J. Lawson of Co B, 51st Va. Regt, and find him unfit for military service on account of stiffness of knee joint, the result of gun shot wound, and therefore I respectfully recommend that he be allowed to appear before the board, with a view to his being retired. Very Respectfully, E. F. Allston, Asst. Surg, 51st Va Regt."
07/09/1870 - Practiced medicine, St. James Santee, Charleston Co., SC (lived with his wife, Catherine, and three children; indexed in the 1870 U. S. Census as E. F. Allston)
1874 - Practiced medicine, McClellanville, Charleston Co., SC
06/09/1880 - Practiced medicine, Saint James Santee, Charleston Co., SC (lived with his
wife, "Cathrine", and one daughter; indexed in the 1880 U. S. Census as "Edward Alston")
03/05/1896 - Died "Darien, Ga., March 5 - Dr. E. F. Allston, an aged physician, residing at Lane Creek, about twelve miles from Darien, fell into the fireplace at his residence yesterday morning and died from the injuries to-day . . . " (buried: St. Andrews Cemetery, Darien, McIntosh Co., GA; FindAGrave #92993037) [Source: Obituary of Dr. E. F. Allston (1896) The Morning News, Savannah, GA, March 6, 1896, p. 2, c. 1.]
06/02/1900 - Widow, Catherine, lived with her son, P. B. Allston, and his family, Brunswick, Glynn Co,, GA
03/20/1914 - Widow, Catherine, died in Virginia (buried: St. Andrews Cemetery, Darien, McIntosh Co., GA; FindAGrave #92992218)

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F. T. & Koste, J. L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
07/03/2021. Unpublished database.