The Last Roll; Col. M. C. Dickson

Confederate Veteran
Volume, Number 11, Page 516
November 1906

After a brief illness. Col. M. C. Dickson died at his home in Pendleton, S. C., on July 19, 1906. Surviving him are his wife and four children (three sons and a daughter).

Colonel Dickson was born in Pendleton January 27, 1841, the son of Thomas Dickson, of Abbeville County. His mother was a daughter of General Scott, of Revolutionary fame. He was just ready for Davidson College when the war came on, and he enlisted promptly in the Fourth South Carolina, serving there for the first twelve months, and then joined the cavalry under Hampton. By his bravery and efficiency he won a lieutenantcy, and during the illness of his captain, John C. Calhoun, he commanded the company. From the battle of Manassas to within ninety days of the close of the war, he did not miss an engagement in which his company participated. At the battle of Fayetteville, N. C., however, with seven saber cuts, wounded in side and hip, he was dragged from his horse and left unconscious on the field. After the war he returned to Pendleton and engaged in merchandising for a number of years, and then turned to farming, and at the time of his death owned several fine plantations. His wife was Miss Gilkerson, of Laurens County, whose grandmother was a first cousin of John C. Calhoun.