Father: John A. Robertson
Mother: Mary Jane Hughes
1860 - M.D. degree, University of Louisiana, Medical Department, New Orleans, LA
(from Washington, St. Landry Parish, LA, before medical school)
1860 - Practiced medicine, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA
06/04/1861 - Enlisted, Confederate States Army, Camp Moore, LA (from: St. Landry
Parish, LA; occupation: physician; marital status: single)
06/04/1861 - Pvt., Capt. Nat. Offutt's Co (St. Landry Light Guard - later Co C), 6th LA Infantry, Camp Moore, LA
06/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 6th LA Infantry, Fairfax Station [VA]
07/00/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 6th LA Infantry, Mitchell's Ford, VA
07/19/1861 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
to rank from 06/09/61
07/21/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 6th LA Infantry, Camp Pickens, VA
08/25/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 6th LA Infantry, Camp Bienville, VA (near Centreville, VA)
10/00/1861 - Passed Army Board of Medical Examination for the position of Surgeon
12/10/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 6th LA Infantry, Camp Florida, VA
12/23/1861 - Asst. Surgeon, 6th LA Infantry, 8th Brigade, near Manassas Junction, VA
01/15/1862 - Acting as Surgeon, 6th LA Infantry
02/05/1862 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
02/17/1862 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
02/25/1862 - Surgeon, 6th LA Infantry, Camp Carondelet, near Manassas, VA (serving Reserve Division, Army of the Potomac, Maj. Gen. E. Kirby Smith, Commanding)
03/07/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 6th LA Infantry, Camp Carondelet, VA, acting as Surgeon, 6th LA Infantry
04/13/1862 - Surgeon, 6th LA Infantry, Camp Buchanan, VA
10/25/1862 - Prisoner, Fort McHenry, MD, paroled and sent to Aiken's Landing, VA
05/00/1863 - Surgeon, 6th LA Infantry
08/13/1863 - Patient, Gen. Hospital, Charlottesville, VA (fibris remittent)
09/07/1863 - Returned to duty
10/08/1863 - Absent, sick
10/29/1863 - Surgeon, Gen. H.T. Hays' Brigade [absent, sick]
10/29/1863 - Patient, Gen. Hospital No. 4, Richmond, VA (dysenteria)
12/00/1863 - Absent, sick
02/00/1864 - Absent, sick
02/17/1864 - Ordered South to establish a hospital in Columbus, GA (S.O. 40/3)
03/13/1864 - Surgeon-in-charge, Lee Hospital, Columbus, GA
03/25/1864 - Member, Medical Examining Board, Walker Hospital, Columbus, GA
04/29/1864 - Dropped from rolls of 6th LA Infantry [assigned to duty in GA]
05/28/1864 - Member, Medical Examining Board, Walker Hospital, Columbus, GA
07/00/1864 - Surgeon-in-charge, Lee Hospital and Convalescent Camp, Columbus, GA
08/10/1864 - Surgeon-in-charge, Lee Hospital, Columbus, GA
09/07/1864 - Relieved [?from what] (S.O. 212/10)
09/09/1864 - Member, Board of Consulting Surgeons, Walker Hospital, Columbus, GA
09/23/1864 - Surgeon-in-charge, Lee Hospital, Columbus, GA
~1865 - Married, Mary Isabelle Garrard (she died, ~1903)
1870 - Farmer, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA
1880 - Lawyer, Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, LA
1880-1884 - Louisiana State Senator from St. Landry Parish, LA
1881 - President, Louisiana State Senate

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
12/13/2012. Unpublished database.