HICKOX, Perry (9/22/1837- 12/6/1914 ) Wife: Arcadia Harris

Source: MSR National Archives

- Enlisted as a Private Jul 29, 1861 in Company "D" (Seaboard Guards) at Satilla GA for 12 months

- Hospitalized at Winder Hospital  ( VA) Oct 9 to 26, 1862 ( Sharpsburg campaign)

- Hospitalized at Hugeunot Springs ( Richmond ) to Dec 31,1862 ( Fredericksburg campaign)

- Wounded at Fredericksburg, Hamilton’s Crossing (Chancellorsville campaign) May 3,  1863, sent to Chimborazo Hospital (Richmond) May 9, granted 40 day furlough @ Jun 25, 1863.

- Received Commuted Rations from 24 June to 4 Aug 1864 , signing on 25 June 1864 .

- Captured at Petersburg Mar 25, 1865 (Fort Stedman)

- Released at Point Lookout , MD Jun 28, 1865

Source: South Georgia Rebels (Murray)

- Wounded in left thigh at Second Manassas ( Actually, believed to be at Chantilly, a following action fought on Sep 1, 1862)

- Wounded at Fredericksburg (Marye’s Heights) May 22, 1863

- Captured at Petersburg Mar 25, 1865

- Released at Point Lookout , MD Jun 28, 1865

Note: It would appear that Perry endured the most hard fighting, and the increasingly extreme privations that went with service in the Confederate Army, of the five HICKOX brothers who served the Confederacy. His capture was in the battle for Fort Stedman , a desperate, last-ditch attempt by the Confederates to break the siege of Petersburg . Clearly seeing that conditions were rapidly approaching the point at which the Confederate Army eventually would be out-flanked and overwhelmed, and after consultations with President Davis, Lee summoned MGEN John B. Gordon, formerly commander of the Georgia Brigade and by then the commander of the remnants of the old Corps of "Stonewall" Jackson. Recognizing that they were probably just grasping for a means to forestall the inevitable, the two examined the options available, and decided upon an attempt to break through the Federal Lines at one of the Federal redoubts across the lines from the Georgia troops, referred to as Fort Stedman. The plan was a good one, and it came close to achieving its goals. The attempt involved sending a group of specially-picked men in the early AM hours to stealthily clear the innumerable and devilish obstacles placed in front of the Federal lines and to follow quickly with a concentration of three companies to capture the fort, turn its guns on the other smaller Federal forts to the rear, and, hopefully, to allow other, larger, groups of Confederates to pour through the break. The attack succeeded in that Fort Stedman was captured, but the attempt to exploit that success fell victim to the Confederates’ inability to find and secure the other smaller forts behind it and affect a break-through of the Federal lines. Those who had arrived in the fort were quickly surrounded by rallying Federals and compelled to surrender, Perry among them. So, Perry’s long, dangerous and devoted service to the Confederate cause came to an end. He and his brother Benjamin, who had been captured the previous December at Fort McAllister near Savannah, were reunited at the Federal prison camp at Point Lookout, MD, and released on June 28, 1865 with all the other prisoners after the cessation of hostilities, and returned home to resume their lives. Given the abominable conditions prevalent in that prison camp at that time, which rivaled those of the infamous Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, GA, and were typical of POW camps, both North and South, they were fortunate to have survived. Their brother David, who was killed in July 1864 and was therefore spared the awful experiences of late 1864 and early 1865, clearly was next among the brothers in terms of exposure to danger and privation on behalf of the Southern Cause, and perhaps he can even be given first honors, in that he paid the ultimate price for his devotion.