According to info from his daughter, Martha, William went by "Dickson"

have found no documentation proving William ever served in the Civil War. According to news article published in Tennessee newspaper, featuring daughter Mary Frances (Bateman) Tidwell, she states no one in her immediate family served.

According to family photos and stories, Treasy Humphress Bateman Dunaway is William's sister:
Treasy Humphress Bateman Dunaway and we now have DNA proof of this fact.

2011: excerpt from info sent to June Thomazin by Eva Davidson Barker, great granddaughter of William Dickson Bateman:

…."When William and Harriet returned to Tennessee they lived very near Shiloh in Montgomery County during the Civil War. Their son, Wiley told his daughter Edna (Lizzie) that when he was 12 years old they stood on their front porch and heard shells bursting during the battle of Shiloh. Even though the battle took place some miles away it was possible to hear the sounds. [Wiley was born 1851; Battle of Shiloh was April 1862]. Assurance was given in a personal conversation with a judge-lawyer, who was speaker of the house when Frank Clement was governor, in Lexington, TN. He said the battle of Shiloh took place on April 6 and 7, 1862. On the night of April 5, 1862 there was a lot of rain and then on April 6-7 the air was very heavy and the sound of the battle carried a long way. His ancestors heard the shell bursting in Lexington."

"William and Harriet later moved to a farm near Van Leer, located on Bone Creek, a tributary of Little Barton's Creek on Woods Valley Road. William built a two room log house with a dog-trot and stone chimneys stood at each end of the house. The house is still in use in 1993. The dog-trot had been closed in with rooms added to the back and it has been weather boarded. The two chimneys are still there"………

"William was active in the Baptist Church and the Association. While attending an associational meeting of Judson Association at New Hope Church, as a messenger from his church near Van Leer, he became real sick and died on March 20, 1879 soon after returning home. He is buried across the Bone Creek and road in front of his house in Bone Cemetery up on a hill overlooking his house"……….