Location:
US 221
Treutlen County, Georgia
N 32° 23.620 W082° 33.937
Date of Visit: November 20, 2020
Phillip Daniel Logan
Feb 5, 1835
Oct 11, 1912
CSA
Co H 28th Ga Vol Inf
March 20, 1862 Apr 26, 1865
Calvin Gay
Pvt Co E 5 Ga Calvary
Confederate States Army
May 3 1837 Jan 22 1915
George D. Hughes
Pvt Co H 5 Ga Reserves
Confederate States Army
Mar 20,1844 May 12 1915
Pvt
Wiley G Braddock
Co A
48 Ga Inf
CSA
1835
1911
John D Stanford
CO H
22 Ga Inf
CSA
Pvt SW Dickerson
Co D
25 Ga Inf
CSA
Jun 5 1839
Jan 1864
Stephen D. Dickerson enlisted in Company D of the 25th Georgia at Causton’s Bluff between Tybee and Savannah on October 7, 1862. According to his service record he was captured by the Federal troops at Ringgold on November 28, 1863. The 25th was brigaded with several other Georgia regiments under Claudius Wilson in Walker’s Division and was assigned a position on the crest of Missionary Ridge near Tunnel Hill on the north end of the ridge. On the evening of the 24th Dickerson’s regiment would have been in retreat with the rest of the Army of Tennessee south from Chattanooga toward Ringgold and Dalton. Over the next four days the Union Army pushed Johnston south with Cleburne stopping the Union advance in Ringgold Gap on the 27th. General Grant reports the capture of over 6000 Confederates. Stephen must have been one of those.
By January he was in or near Nashville as he was admitted to Military Hospital Number 1 on January 4, 1864 with inflammation of the lungs, also diagnosed as double pneumonia. Stephen died January 7 and was buried in City Cemetery in grave 5999. On the Record of Death and Interment it is noted that he was twenty-five years old and had a wife in “…Swaynesboro, Emanuel Co. Ga.”
Sources:
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for S.W. Dickerson, 25th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold December 9, 2020 (http://www.fold3.com).
Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 203.
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (128 vol., Washington: Printing Office, 1880-1901), Ser.1 Vol. 31, Part 2, 745, Report of Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne, hereafter cited Official Records.
Official Record (128 vol., Washington: Printing Office, 1880-1901), Ser.1 Vol. 31, Part 2, 27, Report of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, December 7, 1863.
