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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

J. T. Dickson

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He mustered as Private in Company D, First Texas Infantry on 6 June 1861 in New Orleans. He was wounded at Seven Pines, VA on 1 June 1862 and promoted to First Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in the leg in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He served with his unit to the surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 who has him as J.D. Dickson, and Simpson.2 Wound detail from a 22 September casualty list by Lt. Col. Work published in the Galveston News of 1 November 1862.

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, Pg. 142 [AotW citation 1449]

2 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 34 [AotW citation 20881]

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