The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-04-17
OCALA FLORIDA, FRIDAY APRIL II, 1914

command Of all the state troops call
ed into service BY general orders of
July 80 After the fight at Palatka
these men performed picket duty
along the ST. Johns; and when the
| Federals moved simultaneously from
| Jacksonville and Green Cove Springs
toward Baldwin, Captain Dickson
followed to Gainesville and directed
the battle there, capturing three hun
dred men, two hundred and sixty
| horses and many stores. His name
was now held in terror by the enemy
who sent out at least one unsuccess-
| full expedition for the purpose of
| capturing him. He defended Mari
anna and won victory at Green
Cove Springs in October. He drove
| his troops six to one, at Cedar Keys:
and till the war closed he was always
wherever fighting was most to be ex-
pecte.
General Finegan
Brig. Gen. Joseph Finegan was a
/ prominent lawyer and statesman in
Florida before the war, and in 1861
he was placed by Gov. John Milton
at the head of military affairs in the
state. His commission as brigadier-
general was given him in April, 1862
! and until the battle of Olustee he
commanded the district of Middle
and East Florida. General Finegan
was called upon. for skillful general
ship and courageous firmness. So
! well did he respond that a signal
| victory was obtained at Olustee and
feated. He was sent to Virginia in
May. participated with bravery in the
battle of Cpld Harbor, and won dis
tinction on the memorable 3rd of
June. Grants charging columns
broke through weak point in Breck-
inridge's line. Immediately Finegan
rushed into the breach and in des-
perate fight drove back the assailants
with heavy loss to Hancock's troops.
He served with the Army of North
ern Virginia until March 2. 1865,
when he was again assigned to duty
in Florida. After the war he resum-
+, ed his law practice and died at San
| ford, in October, 1885.
General Finley
| Brig. Gen. Jesse Johnson Finley
was born in Wilson county Tenn, in
1912. He studied law, but raised a
company and served as captain in the
| Seminole War. He moved to Flori-
da in 1916, became prominent in pol
itics, and was appointed judge of
the west circuit in 1853. He was
made judge of the Confederate court
in 1861, but quit to enter active SER
vice as private and was promoted
to captain and then to colonel of the
| Tennessee, in the Kentucky campaign
and led his regiment in the battle of
lChickamauga. He was commission
ed brigadier general in November,
1868, commanded a brigade at Mis-
sionary Ridge, was in the battle of
Resaca in the May campaign, and
was there severly wounded. He was
wounded again at Jonesboro. but re-
fused to take the train till his wound
ed meE were embarked and barely
escaped capture. During the subse-
quent campaigns of General Hood he
! was physically unfit for duty. He
was with General Cobb at Colum bus
when Wilson's Federal troops en-
tered. and escaped to Eufaula. soon
served afterwards in Congress and
for a short term in the United States
Senate.
| General Loring
Maj. Gen William Wing Loring,
born in St. Augustine he was sol
der from boyhood, fighting indians
n the swamps Of Florida when four
teen years OF age. He was appointed
second lieutenant in 1897 serving in
Seminole war, and he fought under
General Scott in all the battles OF
the Mexican war from Vera Cruz to
the City Of Mexico.
In 1861 he was commissioned a
brigadier general, succeeding Gen
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