SURGEON D’ESTAING DICKINSON
Was born in the town of Watertown, Jefferson County, May 19th, 1836, and graduated from Albany Medical College in 1858. After practising in Watertown and vicinity four years, he was chosen Surgeon to Sing Sing Prison, which position he held when appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Thirty-third. He was promoted to full Surgeon in the fall of 1862, and remained with the Regiment until its return home. While in charge of the Liberty Hall Hospital on the Peninsula, containing nearly five hundred men, he was made prisoner, refusing to leave his patients. After being detained by the rebel authorities for several weeks, he was set at liberty and rejoined the Regiment. During the winter of 1863 he was placed in charge of Howe’s Division Hospital at Acquia Creek, and when General Hooker’s series of battles occurred, was given, the entire supervision of all the hospitals of the Sixth Army Corps.