Benjamin B. Dickens, Private, Capt. J. H. Buford's Company of Mounted Men,* enlisted August 28, 1863** at Kosciusko by Capt. Buford for 3 years or the war, admitted March 27, 1865 to Way Hospital, Meridian, Miss., wounded, furloughed, April 22 for 60 days, POW detailed in the Commissary Dept., Confederate States Army, commanded by Capt. J. H. Nelson, A. C. S., surrendered at Citronelle, Ala., by Lieut. Gen. R. Taylor, C. S. A., to Maj. Gen. E. R. S. Canby, U. S. A., May 4, 1865, and paroled at Jackson, Miss., May 14, 1865
* This company subsequently became Company C, Perrin's Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry, which was also known as the 11th Regiment Mississippi Cavalry
** Description: Age 41, 6' 3", dark eyes, gray hair, resident of Attalla County, Miss.
M269: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Mississippi