. Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895) . General Frederick S. Ferguson. COMMANDING ALABAMA DIVISION, U. C. V 120 FLORIDA DIVISION. Major General J. J. Dickison, commander, Ocala, Fla.; Colonel Fred L,.Robertson, adjutant general and chief of staff, Brooksville, MAJOR GENERAL JOHN J. DICKISON. AJOR GENERAL DICKISON, commanding Flor-ida division, United Confederate Veterans, was bornin Monroe Co., Va., March 27, 1824, in the good oldtimes when the people of that grand mountain coun-try were in blissful ignorance of the wonderful speedof the iron horse, and when called away fro
. Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895) . General Frederick S. Ferguson. COMMANDING ALABAMA DIVISION, U. C. V 120 FLORIDA DIVISION. Major General J. J. Dickison, commander, Ocala, Fla.; Colonel Fred L,.Robertson, adjutant general and chief of staff, Brooksville, MAJOR GENERAL JOHN J. DICKISON. AJOR GENERAL DICKISON, commanding Flor-ida division, United Confederate Veterans, was bornin Monroe Co., Va., March 27, 1824, in the good oldtimes when the people of that grand mountain coun-try were in blissful ignorance of the wonderful speedof the iron horse, and when called away from theirpeaceful homes on business or pleasure, were con-tent with the quiet comfort of the old-fashioned fam-ily coach or the public stage coach. His father was a planter, so his boy-hood life was a rural one. He was remarkable for his love of the military,delighted in reading the brilliant exploits of the great military leadersof history. It was the cherished hope of his father that his son—who wasnamed for his old friend, General Jackson—should be educated at WestPoint, and therefore his early tastes were all so directed, but at the age ofsixteen he had attained his full height of six feet, and as is the inevitableresult of such rapid growth, his physical strength w
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