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Dickey, John H.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 27, credited to Bridgewater, VT
Unit(s): 4th VT INF
Service: enl 8/11/62, m/i 9/30/62, Pvt, Co. H, 4th VT INF, pow 9/13/64, escaped 4/21/65, tr to Co. E 2/25/65, m/o 5/30/65

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VITALS

Birth: 1835, Barnard, VT
Death: 07/18/1865

Burial: Baker Hill Cemetery, Bridgewater, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone photographer: Joe Schenkman
Findagrave Memorial #: 125092741

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Not found
Portrait?: Unknown
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: Not Found
(If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war)

Remarks: Committed suicide after learning his wife committed adultery

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Baker Hill Cemetery, Bridgewater, VT

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John Dickey

LAMOILLE NEWSDEALER: JULY 25, 1865

SUICIDE: --- John Dickey, of Bridgewater, hung himself on the 18th ult. He was a returned soldier, who was taken prisoner on September 1864, and made his escape the 24th of last April, when he came home. The cause of the act is reported to have been the unkind treatment of his wife.

Submitted By: Deanna French.

From the Linda Welch Collection