![]() Walter Mason Dickinson Captain, United States Army |
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Captain
- 17th United States Infantry
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. DICKINSON, WALTER M CAPT 17TH US INF VETERAN SERVICE DATES: Unknown DATE OF DEATH: 07/02/1898 DATE OF INTERMENT: Unknown BURIED AT: SECTION OS SITE LOT 284 ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY ![]() Photo By: M. R. Patterson, July 2002
Photographs By M. R. Patterson, October 2002Updated: 18 November 2000 Updated: 19 January 2002 Updated: 9 July 2002 Updated: 20 October 2002 Updated: 4 March 2003 Updated: 3 August 2003 Updated: 3 April 2004 Updated: 4 September 2004 Updated: 24 July 2005 Updated: 4 July 2007 Updated: 24 August 2007 |
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