Arthur
V. "Uncle Dot" Deaderick was at West Point Point
for a while, and at the outbreak of the Civil War enlisted
in Company
B, Nineteenth Tennessee Infantry under Major Frank Cheatham
and served four years in the Confederate Army. After the
battle of Shiloh,
on April 6, 1862, at their organization at Corith, Mississippi,
he volunteered as a private under his brother James Galitzen
Deaderick, who was a colonel in charge of Company B, Nineteenth
Tennessee Infantry. He preferred being a private under his
brother, rather than an officier in another company. He was
color sergeant of Company B, and in the battle of Murfreesboro was
a lieutenant. He received his commission as captain and was
in nineteen battles and twenty-one skirmishes, among them
the battle of Chickamauga.
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