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Mrs. E. L. Dickenson, of Hopkinsville, Ky., seeks information of her husband's service in the war. In 1862 Reuben Dabney Dickenson enlisted near Dyersburg, Tenn., in Company D, Hill's Cavalry Regiment. His company was sent to Camp Trenton and was called out just before the battle of Shiloh. He was appointed courier for General Beale until the retreat into Port Hudson; was wagon master from then until the surrender. He was also in the commissary department in North Alabama.
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, September, 1916.
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