HICKOX, Perry (1841-1914), married Arcadia Harris. Source: MSR National Archives. He enlisted as a private July 29, 1861 in Company "D" (Seaboard Guards) at Satilla, Georgia for 12 months.
He was hospitalized at Winder (Georgia run Hospital in Virginia) from October 9, to October 26, 1862 (Sharpsburg Campaign); and at Huguenot Springs, Virginia, til December 31, 1862 (Fredericksburg Campaign). He was wounded at Fredericksburg, Hamilton's Crossing (Chancellorsville Campaign) on May 3, 1863, and sent to Chimborazo Hospital (Richmond) May 9, 1863. He was granted a 40 day furlough on June 25, 1863.
Perry was captured at Petersburg on March 25, 1865 (Fort Stedman), and released at Point Lookout, Maryland on June 28, 1865.
Source: "South Georgia Rebels"(Alton Murray); Wounded in left thigh at Second Manassas (actually believed to be at Chantilly, a following action fought on September 1, 1862. He was wounded a second time at Fredericksburg (Marye's Heights) on May 22, 1863. Perry was captured at Petersburg on March 25, 1865, and released at Point Lookout, Maryland on June 28, 1865.
Note: Of the five HICKOX brothers who served the Confederacy, it would appear that Perry endured the most hard fighting, and the increasingly extreme privations that went with service in the Confederate Army. His capture was in the battle for Fort Stedman, a desperate, last-ditch attempt by the Confederates to break the siege of Petersburg.
Clearly seeing that conditions were rapidly approaching the point at which the Confederate Army eventually would be out-flanked and overwhelmed, and after consultations with President Davis, Lee summoned MGEN John B. Gordon, formerly commander of the Georgia Brigade and now the commander of the remnants of the old Corps of "Stonewall" Jackson. Recognizing that they were probably just grasping for a means to forestall the inevitable, the two examined the options available, and decided upon an attempt to break through the Federal Lines at one of the Federal redoubts across the lines from the Georgia troops, referred to as Fort Stedman.
The plan was a good one, and it came close to achieving its goals. The attempt involved sending a group of specially picked men in the early AM hours to stealthily clear the innumerable and devilish obstacles placed in front of the Federal lines and to follow quickly with a concentration of three companies to capture the fort, turn its guns on the other smaller Federal forts to the rear, and, hopefully, to allow other larger groups of Confederates to pour through the break. The attack succeeded in that Fort Stedman was captured, but the attempt to exploit that success fell victim to the Confederates' inability to find and secure the other smaller forts behind it and affect a break-through of the Federal lines. Those who had arrived in the fort were quickly surrounded by rallying Federals and compelled to surrender, Perry among them.
So, Perry's long, dangerous and devoted service to the Confederate cause came to an end. He and his brother Benjamin, who had been captured the previous December at Fort McAllister near Savannah, were reunited at the Federal prison camp at Point Lookout, MD, and released on June 28, 1865 with all the other prisoners after the cessation of hostilities, and returned home to resume their lives. Given the abominable conditions prevalent in that prison camp at that time, which rivaled those of the infamous Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, GA, they were fortunate to have survived. Their brother David, who was killed in July 1864 and was therefore spared the awful experiences of late 1864 and early 1865, clearly was next among the brothers in terms of exposure to danger and privation on behalf of the Southern Cause, and perhaps he can even be given first honors, in that he paid the ultimate price for his devotion.