George E Dixon, CSA
George Erasmus Dixon
American
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
1861/10/00 | George E Dixon enlist in the Confederate Army and is assigned to Company A, 21st Alabama Infantry Regiment. | Confederate Soldier | |||||
1862/04/06 | Company A, 21st Alabama Infantry Regiment loses 200 men killed or wounded out of 650 at the Battle of Shiloh. Sergeant Dixon is severely wounded in the left leg. A $20 gold coin he carried as a good luck piece saved his leg, and possibly his life. | Confederate Sergeant | George Dixon Gold Coin | Shiloh National Military Park | Tennessee | Battle of Shiloh | |
1863/12/00 | In late 1863 or early 1864, Lt Geo Dixon convinces PGT Beauregard to allow him to continue the HUNLEY sea trials. A cable to which the contact explosive is attached becomes entangled in the rudder of a ship towing the HUNLEY during the next test run. | Confederate Sailor | H L HUNLEY (submarine) | ||||
1864/02/17 | Commanded by Lt Dixon, about 4 miles off Breach Inlet in Sullivan's Island, the H L HUNLEY places a 135 lb torpedo below the waterline of the USS Housatonic. The Housatonic burns for three minutes before sinking, killing five sailors. | Confederate Lieutenant | H L HUNLEY (submarine) | Sullivan's Island, SC | South Carolina | H L HUNLEY's Final Mission | |
1864/02/17 | The H L HUNLEY surfaces and signals their comrades at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island with a blue magnesium light, indicating a successful mission. | Confederate Lieutenant | H L HUNLEY (submarine) | Fort Moultrie | Sullivan's Island, SC | H L HUNLEY's Final Mission | |
1864/02/17 | The H L HUNLEY, along with First Lt Dixon and seven Confederate crewmen, sinks on it's return to Sullivan's Island. | Died | H L HUNLEY (submarine) | Charleston Harbor | H L HUNLEY's Final Mission | ||
2004/04/17 | Remains of George Dixon and the HUNLEY's last crewmen are buried in Magnolia Cemetery. His home Lodge, now the Mobile-McCormick Lodge No 40, and the Masonic Grand Lodges of Alabama and South Carolina participated in the military and Masonic funeral rites. | In Memoriam | H L HUNLEY (submarine) | Magnolia Cemetery | Charleston, SC | H L HUNLEY's Final Mission |
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