Stephen Dickson

In 1860 he was a 23 year old salesman living in James Webb's hotel in Hillsborough in Orange County, NC. He enlisted there on 20 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 22 June. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 6 July 1861.

He was with his company at Harpers Ferry about 15 September but was afterward sick and not in action at Sharpsburg on the 17th.

He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 5 December and to Captain on 25 April 1863. He was wounded by a gunshot to his right lung at Bristoe Station, VA on 14 October and in hospitals in Richmond, VA and on furlough for most of the next year. He was retired for disability on 2 November 1864 and assigned to a military court in Georgia.

In 1870 he was a farmer at Melville in Alamance County, NC, but by 1880 and to at least 1900 he was farming back in Hillsborough. By 1910 and to 1920 he was nearby in Cheeks Township, Orange County, NC, still farming.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3 and J.A. Graham's Descriptive Book of the Orange Guards in his Papers,2 which has his birth on 9 April 1838; thanks to Steve Peck for the nudge to look deeper into that. Personal details from family genealogists, his 1901 application for a North Carolina Confederate pension, and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Nannie Mebane (1847-1928) and they had 3 sons between 1868 and 1877.

01/09/1836 in NC

11/09/1921; Mebane, NC; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Mebane, NC