George Dickenson

He enlisted as a Corporal in Battery K, First Missouri Artillery on 26 April 1861 at the St. Louis Arsenal, and was promoted to Sergeant on 10 June. He was appointed regimental Quartermaster Sergeant on 17 October, but was soon after discharged to accept appointment as 2nd Lieutenant, 4th United States Artillery to date from 21 October 1861, which appointment he accepted from St. Louis, MO on 7 November. He was then 21 years old and posted at Jefferson Barracks. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 29 November 1861.

He may have succeeded the wounded Captain Clark in command of the battery at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was killed at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862, then in command of Battery E.

His service from Heitman,1 his Compiled Service Records,2 and Letters Received by the Adjutant General, 1861-1870, the latter two online from fold3.

c. 1840 in MO

12/13/1862; Fredericksburg, VA