Robert J. Milton was born around 1836 in Georgia. He moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1850s, and he probably married a woman named Mary. By 1860, he was working as a “car builder” in Montgomery. They had a son in the early 1860s, but he died in the summer of 1861. He took part in the First Battle of Manassas, which he declared “the grates fight…you ever heard of.” He confessed that he had “never witness[ed] such a sene in my life. The field is covered for a bout Ten miles with dead Yankeys.” He predicted there would be “another grate battle Soon, which will be the Battle of all Battles. We expect to kill the last Yankey who atempts to fite us.” He died sometime after January 1862.

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