Captain, 2nd Battalion SC Res, Confederate States of America. Name is probably Benjamin Franklin Dickson. Suggested by Tom Reed (member 47709605)that the name is Benjamin E Dickson.
Probably husband of Matilda Jane Gantt Dickson.
Source: 1) Banks Family Bible and 2) family history written by William A. Dickson, their son. A copy was found in the Anderson County (SC) Library (A sketch of Matthew Dickson and his descendants in the United States / by William Alexander Dickson.
Publication Date 1902; Physical Description print [22] leaves ; 28 cm.)
From "Traditions and History of Anderson County, 1928", page 205, by Louisa Ayer Vandiver:
Matthew, Jr., Walter Carson and James Dickson, sons of the Revolutionary patriot, enlisted in the company formed by Mr. Alexander Moorhead and went to fight Indians under Jackson in Alabama territory. During their absence, while the country was embroiled in its second war with England, Benjamin Franklin Dickson, son of Matthew, Jr. was born. That boy lived to become Captain of Company E, State Reserves, in the War Between the States. His service was along the coast of North and South Carolina. It was said of him by his contemporaries that he knew Macomb's tactics by heart, and that he could handle a company or a battalion with the ease and skill of a West Pointer. Under the old militia regime he commanded a company in the Fork for many years, and was a conspicuous figure at battalion and regimental musters. In 1828 he became a citizen of the Fork, where he spent the rest of his life. He married Miss Matilda J. Gantt, of Anderson county. The only children of this marriage were Reverend J. Walter Dickson, a prominent Methodist minister, long a presiding elder, and Mr. W. A. Dickson, for many years a conspicuous teacher and newspaper correspondent of the Fork.
Probably husband of Matilda Jane Gantt Dickson.
Source: 1) Banks Family Bible and 2) family history written by William A. Dickson, their son. A copy was found in the Anderson County (SC) Library (A sketch of Matthew Dickson and his descendants in the United States / by William Alexander Dickson.
Publication Date 1902; Physical Description print [22] leaves ; 28 cm.)
From "Traditions and History of Anderson County, 1928", page 205, by Louisa Ayer Vandiver:
Matthew, Jr., Walter Carson and James Dickson, sons of the Revolutionary patriot, enlisted in the company formed by Mr. Alexander Moorhead and went to fight Indians under Jackson in Alabama territory. During their absence, while the country was embroiled in its second war with England, Benjamin Franklin Dickson, son of Matthew, Jr. was born. That boy lived to become Captain of Company E, State Reserves, in the War Between the States. His service was along the coast of North and South Carolina. It was said of him by his contemporaries that he knew Macomb's tactics by heart, and that he could handle a company or a battalion with the ease and skill of a West Pointer. Under the old militia regime he commanded a company in the Fork for many years, and was a conspicuous figure at battalion and regimental musters. In 1828 he became a citizen of the Fork, where he spent the rest of his life. He married Miss Matilda J. Gantt, of Anderson county. The only children of this marriage were Reverend J. Walter Dickson, a prominent Methodist minister, long a presiding elder, and Mr. W. A. Dickson, for many years a conspicuous teacher and newspaper correspondent of the Fork.
Captain, 2nd Battalion SC Res, Confederate States of America. Name is probably Benjamin Franklin Dickson. Suggested by Tom Reed (member 47709605)that the name is Benjamin E Dickson.
Probably husband of Matilda Jane Gantt Dickson.
Source: 1) Banks Family Bible and 2) family history written by William A. Dickson, their son. A copy was found in the Anderson County (SC) Library (A sketch of Matthew Dickson and his descendants in the United States / by William Alexander Dickson.
Publication Date 1902; Physical Description print [22] leaves ; 28 cm.)
From "Traditions and History of Anderson County, 1928", page 205, by Louisa Ayer Vandiver:
Matthew, Jr., Walter Carson and James Dickson, sons of the Revolutionary patriot, enlisted in the company formed by Mr. Alexander Moorhead and went to fight Indians under Jackson in Alabama territory. During their absence, while the country was embroiled in its second war with England, Benjamin Franklin Dickson, son of Matthew, Jr. was born. That boy lived to become Captain of Company E, State Reserves, in the War Between the States. His service was along the coast of North and South Carolina. It was said of him by his contemporaries that he knew Macomb's tactics by heart, and that he could handle a company or a battalion with the ease and skill of a West Pointer. Under the old militia regime he commanded a company in the Fork for many years, and was a conspicuous figure at battalion and regimental musters. In 1828 he became a citizen of the Fork, where he spent the rest of his life. He married Miss Matilda J. Gantt, of Anderson county. The only children of this marriage were Reverend J. Walter Dickson, a prominent Methodist minister, long a presiding elder, and Mr. W. A. Dickson, for many years a conspicuous teacher and newspaper correspondent of the Fork.
Probably husband of Matilda Jane Gantt Dickson.
Source: 1) Banks Family Bible and 2) family history written by William A. Dickson, their son. A copy was found in the Anderson County (SC) Library (A sketch of Matthew Dickson and his descendants in the United States / by William Alexander Dickson.
Publication Date 1902; Physical Description print [22] leaves ; 28 cm.)
From "Traditions and History of Anderson County, 1928", page 205, by Louisa Ayer Vandiver:
Matthew, Jr., Walter Carson and James Dickson, sons of the Revolutionary patriot, enlisted in the company formed by Mr. Alexander Moorhead and went to fight Indians under Jackson in Alabama territory. During their absence, while the country was embroiled in its second war with England, Benjamin Franklin Dickson, son of Matthew, Jr. was born. That boy lived to become Captain of Company E, State Reserves, in the War Between the States. His service was along the coast of North and South Carolina. It was said of him by his contemporaries that he knew Macomb's tactics by heart, and that he could handle a company or a battalion with the ease and skill of a West Pointer. Under the old militia regime he commanded a company in the Fork for many years, and was a conspicuous figure at battalion and regimental musters. In 1828 he became a citizen of the Fork, where he spent the rest of his life. He married Miss Matilda J. Gantt, of Anderson county. The only children of this marriage were Reverend J. Walter Dickson, a prominent Methodist minister, long a presiding elder, and Mr. W. A. Dickson, for many years a conspicuous teacher and newspaper correspondent of the Fork.
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