In his pension application, he said he was contracted as a watchmen at the cotton yard which was next to the Confederate's jail in the city. He claimed that he secretly freed two stage drivers, "one named Dodson," from that jail, but was caught and pursued by the KGC and eventually conscripted into service. This incident would've occurred in late 1863, probably Nov-Dec.
Hall was a dime novelist in the 1870s-1880s and used the names "Jim Dodson" and "Jim Doderson" a couple of times as a character... and always as a stage driver.
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