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 Posted: Fri Aug 24th, 2012 11:39 am
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 GG Uncle...Burton S. Dimmett served in the 42nd Indiana Co. B...enlisted at 16 in September, 1861. Saw action at Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Atlanta Campaign, March to the Sea, and march through the Carolinas. Was General Jefferson C. Davis personal escort in the march through the Carolinas. Mustered out as a Sergeant in July, 1865.

GG Uncle...Overton Dimmett served in the 120th Indiana Co. D. Enlisted shortly before his 15th birthday on January 8, 1864. Saw action in the Atlanta Campaign...Spring Hill, and Franklin where he was wounded. He recovered in time to stand guard duty in Raliegh, NC upon news of President Lincoln's assasination. Mustered out January, 1866.

1st Cousin...Willis Dimmitt enlisted in 33rd North Carolina, 1861. Saw action in all of the major battles of the Eastern Theater up to Chancellorsville where he was severely wounded. He came back to duty for the Siege of Petersburg. Proved too ill to serve and was sent home in December, 1864.

1st Cousin....Joel Dimmitt enlisted in the 52nd North Carolina in August, 1864. Saw action at Petersburg where he was captured April 2, 1865. He "swallowed the dog" in June of 1865 when he pledged allegiance to the US. He was postmaster in the town he was from in the post war era....it is said he displayed the US in a derogatory fashion at the Post Office.

1st Cousin....Joe Cox enlisted in 42nd Indiana in October, 1861. Saw action at Perryville, Stones River, and was captured at Chickamauga. Died in Andersonville Prison on May 15, 1864.

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