Joseph Dickinson

A Philadelphia merchant he enrolled as First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 26th Pennsylvania Infantry on 1 June 1861. He was appointed Captain and Assistant Adjutant General (AAG) of Volunteers on 22 August 1861, and assigned to General Hooker's staff. He was wounded in action at Williamsburg, VA on 5 May and at Fair Oaks, VA on 1 June 1862. He was promoted to Major on 22 August 1862.

He was Assistant Adjutant General, Federal First Army Corps on the Maryland Campaign.

He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel 10 November 1862. He was noted for rescuing civilians, including members of the Chancellor family from their burning house at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863. He was again wounded, at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1864. He resigned his commission due to disability from wounds on 26 January 1864. He was honored by brevets 13 March 1865 to Lieutenant Colonel for Williamsburg and Antietam, Colonel, and Brigadier General for Gettysburg.

He lived in Washington, DC by 1893.

Service data from Heitman1. His photograph from the MOLLUS Massachusetts Collection2 (one also at the Library of Congress). His gravesite is on Findagrave. Further details from Hamersly3.

See a fine Alexander Gardner photograph c. 1863 of him with other members of Hooker's staff - including observer Ferdinand von Zeppelin - from Stacey Palmer on her tumblr Civil War Parlor.

12/25/1830; Philadelphia, PA

04/26/1904; burial in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA