Spalding-Pike County GaArchives Biographies.....Clark Alexander Dickinson  1843 - 1918
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Author: "Confederate Military History, Expanded Edition,"  Volume 7, page 605-606, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC (1987)

Clark Alexander Dickinson, of Spalding County, a veteran of the Griffin Light 
artillery, one of Georgia's most gallant commands, was born in the county where 
he now resides, then known as Pike County, son of Clark M. Dickinson and his 
wife, Mary E. Askew, both natives of Georgia.  In February, 1862, he entered 
the military service of the State in the company organized at Griffin and 
commanded by Capt. J. D. Stewart, and he served with this command at Savannah 
until it it was disbanded a few months later.  Then he enlisted for the service 
of the Confederate States as a private in the battery known as the Griffin 
Light Artillery, commanded by Capt. O. C. Gibson and afterward by Capt. John 
Scogin.  Going with this battery to Chattanooga, they joined the army of 
General Bragg and marched into Kentucky, participating in the campaign in that 
state and the retreat to Tennessee.  After the return to Chattanooga the 
battery was detached to Bridgeport, Ala., and was on duty [page 606] at 
Chattanooga during the battle of Mufreesboro.  Continuing in that region 
Private Dickinson served with his battery at the battle of Chickamauga, 
September 19-20, 1863, and afterward was in garrison at Charleston, Tenn., 
until the battle of Missionary Ridge, when they rejoined Bragg's army just in 
time to take part in the retreat to Dalton.  After spending the winter at 
Resaca, they entered the campaign against Sherman, and participated in the 
fighting from Resaca to Jonesboro.  After the battle of New Hope Church, they 
had suffered such heavy losses of horses that half of the company, including 
Mr. Dickinson, were transferred to Darden's Mississippi battery, with which he 
fought at Kennesaw Mountain and all through the battles and seige of Atlanta.  
In November and December they campaigned under General Hood in north Georgia, 
Alabama, and Tennessee, and lost their guns in the disastrous battle of 
Nashville, December 16, 1864.  Tetreating, poorly clad, and almsot with food 
through the snow and ice, to Mississippi, they suffered great hardships, but 
Private Dickinson was not a fair-weather soldier and remained true to the 
cause.  His last battle was at Selma, Ala., against Wilson's raiders, and 
escaping capture there, in April 1865, he returned to his home.  Lee and 
Johnston had surrendered and he soon afterward was paroled.  Three of his 
brothers were in the Confederate service, two of whom were disabled by 
sickness.  One, John F., served all through the war, and rose to the rank of a 
commisssioned officer, being several times promoted.  Since the war Mr. 
Dickinson has been engaged in farming, and he is now one of the prosperous men 
of his county, making his home near Williamson.  He was married in September, 
1865, to Lucy, daughter of William Blanton, who died in 1879, leaving two sons 
and a daughter,  His second marriage was to Collie, daughter of John L. 
Jackson, and they had three children.  After her death, which occurred in 1889, 
he married Belle, daughter of F. S. Drewry, a union that has been blessed with 
two daughters and a son.

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