Whitesboro Record
September 1906
Tales of the Town
The old Confederate veteran, J.M. Collins, who built his home near Farmington
near a half century ago, spent
a few days in Whitesboro last week. Mr. Collins, being a citizen of East Grayson,
and never wanting an office, has never acquired a general acquaintance in this
part of the county, but where he is known, he is well and favorable known as
among the most honorable and reliable citizens of the county. As a Southern patriot and soldier he enlisted
in the company raised by the late Capt. Pattis.
Among the many battles in which he took part, none has become more
famous than the fierce conflict at Millican Bend on the Mississippi River,
after
which his regiment was known as Fitzhugh’s “Bloody 16th.” His major, W.W. Diamond, and Lt. Col. E.P.
Gregg, fell in this engagement, but both lived to meet the same fate the next
year at Mansfield, La. Mr. Collins was
where “the battle wreck flew the thickest, and death’s brief pang was
quickest.” He was present in the strife,
where these brave officers fell, and he witnessed the fall of John Dickerman,
to rise no more, while his brother Geo. A. Dickerman, who everybody knows in
Grayson County, was trimmed up to the satisfaction of the most fastidious taste
of the yankee soldiers. Mr. Collins
several years ago visited South West Texas for his health, and finally built
him a home there. Returned to his home
in time for the Old Settler’s meeting, and when the leaves put on their ‘sere
and yellow’ he may be found in his Southern home, high up on the Guadalupe.
Farmington History
Susan Hawkins
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