Captain - 17th United States Infantry
Born at Amherst, Massachusetts, April 3, 1856.
Fell At El Caney, July 1, 1898.

First Lieutenant Walter M. Dickinson, killed in Friday's engagement, was born in Massachusetts and was appointed from that State to theMilitary Academy on June14, 1876. Upon graduation he was promoted to be Second Lieutenant in the Fourth Cavalry. His first service was performed on frontier duty at Fort Sill, Indian Territory, and in the field. On December3, 1881, he was transferred with his regiment to FortCummings, NewMexico, and was again in the field, being engaged with hostileIndians at Horseshoe Canyon April 23, 1882.  He served during the next three years at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and in the Oklahoma country.  He was advanced to the rank of First Lieutenant September 1, 1886,and on November 4, 1891 wastransferred to the Seventeenth Infanry.  With Company K of that regiment he took part in the advance on Santiago. Lieuenant Dickinson wasa graduate of the Infantry and Cavalry School of the class of '85.