Joyner is listed in the 1843-1844 catalog of the University of Pennsylvania as a medical student, and was a physician in Halifax County, NC at the start of the war. He enlisted as surgeon of the 30th NC Infantry on October 1, 1861. He resigned his commission on May 1, 1862. Joyner represented Halifax County in the North Carolina legislature during the remainder of the war, having been elected in 1862 and 1864. He took the oath of allegiance on June 29, 1865 in Raleigh, NC and applied for a presidential pardon, in which he claims he opposed secession.
Joyner served as a Councillor of State in 1866. He died between 1867 and 1870, and is buried in Poplar Grove Cemetery in Roanoke Rapids, Halifax County, NC.
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