{⋆★⋆} BG Dockery, Thomas P.

Thomas Pleasant Dockery
Brig. General Dockery.jpg
Born:
December 18, 1833

Birthplace: Montgomery County, North Carolina

Father: Colonel John Dockery 1806 – 1860
(Buried: Dockery Cemetery, Columbia County, Arkansas)​

Mother: Ann D. Mask 1810 – 1864
(Buried: Dockery Cemetery, Columbia County, Arkansas)​

Wife: Laura Octavia West 1839 – 1883

Children:

Nydia Dockery Forman 1860 – 1911​
(Buried: Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Mississippi)​
Octavia Dockery 1865 – 1949​
(Buried: Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Mississippi)​

Education:

Not Known​

Occupation before War:

Large Plantation Manager​
Helped establish the first Railroad in Arkansas​

Civil War Career:

1861: Captain of 68th Arkansas State Militia Regiment​
1861: Captain of Company B, 5th Arkansas State Troops Regiment​
1861: Colonel of 5th Arkansas State Troops Regiment​
1861: Participated in the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Missouri​
1862 – 1863: Colonel of 19th Arkansas Infantry Regiment​
1862: Participated in the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas​
1862: Participated in the Second Battle of Corinth, Mississippi​
1863: Participated in the Battle of Champion Hill, Mississippi​
1863: Captured and Paroled during the Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi​
1863 – 1865: Brigadier General of Confederate Army Infantry​
1864: Brigade Commander during the Red River Campaign Louisiana​
1864: Brigade Commander during Battle of Mount Elba, Arkansas​
1864: Brigade Commander during Battle of Prairie D’Ane, Arkansas​
1864: Brigade Commander during Battle of Poison Spring, Arkansas​
1864: Brigade Commander during Battle of Marks Mills, Arkansas​
1864: Brigade Commander during Battle of Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas​
1864 – 1865: Commander of Reserve forces in the State of Arkansas​
1865: Surrendered all the forces located in Arkansas in May​

Occupation after War:

Civilian Engineer in Houston, Texas​

Died: February 27, 1898

Place of Death: New York City, New York

Cause of Death: Rheumatoid endocarditis and Pulmonary edema

Age at time of Death: 64 years old

Burial Place: Natchez City Cemetery, Natchez, Mississippi
 
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The first half of the war Dockery served with and commanded infantry troops. From just before the Red River Campaign to the end of the war it seems He commanded Cavalry brigades.
 
"It was one morning, a few days after General Pemberton's surrender, and the Confederate troops were marching out of the fated city. The officers' wives and families were in conveyances. The victorious Grant stood watching the retiring Confederate army, the habitual cigar in his mouth. A white spitz dog lay curled at his feet. This dog was a pet of the boys at Federal headquarters, and a great favorite of the general himself. As the carriage occupied by Mrs. General Thomas P. Dockery drew near, General Grant caught up the little snow-white dog and handed it in to that lady, saying, gallantly: "Let this be a flag of truce between us, madam, and if my men continue to possess the courage you have shown during the siege, I would not say, 'I may conquer,' but 'I have conquered,' the South."

The dog was ever afterward called "Truce," and soon became as much the pride of the boys in gray as it had been the joy of those who wore the blue.

The little dog belonged to Miss Dockery's mother and became well known throughout Arkansas. Miss Dockery's earliest recollections were of "Truce" and her family, all as snowy as herself, fresh from the bath, toddling in on the rich old-fashioned velvet carpet, in the spacious parlors of "Lamartine," to receive the guests, who always asked to see "Grant's dog."


Truce is buried in Dockery Cemetery, Columbia County, Arkansas

Truce Dockery.jpg
 
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