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James Jackson Dickenson


Biography
Born 11/15/1828
Birth Location Russell Co.
Died 10/21/1901
Death Location Russell Co., VA
Father John Dickenson
Mother Fanny Romley
Married 9/12/1854
11/26/1861 (LEE)
Spouses Margaret S. Speer
Nancy K. Duff
Military Units
22nd Cavalry
CSR, Pension, and Miscellaneous Images
22nd Cavalry
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Misc
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Widows Pension
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Census Information:

1850: 1582, Age 22
1860: Not found
1870: Castlewood 305, Age 41
1880: Castlewood 273, Age 51
1900: Castlewood 52, 35, Age 71
1910: DEAD
1920: DEAD
1930: DEAD

Miscellaneous Information:

Widow filed pension: 1924 (Lee County)
Appears on pension applications for: John C. Dickenson, 1901 (AR)

Newspaper mentions:
(Nashville) Tennessean, 4/11/1886
Clinch Valley News, 8/29/1890
Bickley Mills Post, many
Richmond Times, 10/22/1901
Abingdon Weekly Virginian, 10/25/1901
Lebanon News, 10/28/1921

Notes: Spent some time in the 1870's in Kentucky.

Obituary online

Military Information:

Compiled Service Record
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Private, Company A, 22nd Virginia Cavalry

Appears on a muster roll for to Oct. 31, 1863 (Dated Oct. 31, 1863)

Enlisted:
When: Aug. 4, 1862
Where: Russell Co., Va
By whom: W. M. Baldwin
Period: 3 yrs

Last paid:
By whom:
To what time:

Present or absent: Present
Remarks:

Card 2

22 Va. Cav

No. 40

No. 112 Abstract K 4th Qr. 1864
J. J. Dickerson

SPECIAL REQUISITION.
Oct. 7th, 1864

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[Special requisition for grain sack. Signed by name.]

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