serviceyears branch death_date allegiance birth_date laterwork commands death_place image_size placeofburial_label battles placeofburial rank image name caption birth_place nickname article_title
1862 -- 1865 csa 20 august 1902 confederate states of america 28 march 1816 1 as florida 's adjutant general 2 . dickison wrote the . florida section of the 12 volume book : '' confederate in military history '' . the late 1870s , he served florida company h of the second florida cavalry okahumpka , florida 150 place of burial american * the battle of gainesville civil war * the battle of horse landing evergreen cemetery , jacksonville , florida 50px colonel -lrb- csa -rrb- capt. john j. dickison.jpg john jackson dickison then-capt . john jackson dickison -lrb- 1864 -rrb- monroe west virginia -rrb- county , west virginia -lrb- now part of `` the swamp fox '' john jackson dickison

john jackson dickison

john jackson dickison -lrb- march 28 , 1816 -- august 20 , 1902 -rrb- was an officer in the confederate states army during the american civil war .
dickison is mostly remembered as being the person who led the attack which resulted in the capture of the union warship in the `` battle of horse landing '' .
this was one of the few instances in which a union warship was captured by land-based confederate forces during the civil war and the only known incident in u.s. history where a cavalry unit sank an enemy gunboat .
dickison and his men were victorious in all of his raids against the union troops in florida , including his raid in gainesville what is known as the battle of gainesville .
tragedy struck dickison , when one of his sons , both of whom served under his command , was killed during a raid .
