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small tract of land and continued in the occupation of 

 farming. When the war broke out he joined a company 

 of volunteers and was elected First Lieutenant. After 

 the battle of Shiloh he was promoted Captain in Company 

 A, 33d Tennessee Volunteers. He was in the battles of 

 Shiloh, Perry ville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Mis- 

 sionary Ridge, Resaca, Marietta, Atlanta and Jonesboro. 

 He was captured and sent to Johnson's Island, where he 

 remained eight months a prisoner. When he returned 

 home he found his property destroyed and engaged for a 

 short time in the mercantile business. In 1869 he was 

 appoinred Deputy Sheriff. He then served seven years 

 as Sheriff. At the expiration of his term he moved to 

 Stoddard county, Missouri, where he still resides. 



He joined the first Wheel organization in his county 

 and has since been prominent in the Order in Missouri. 

 He served two years as President of the Wheel, and when 

 the Wheel and Alliance consolidated at Springfield in 

 August, 1889, was elected President of that body, which 

 took the name Farmers' and Laborers' Union. Capt. 

 Hickman was a delegate to the National Wheel at 

 McKenzie, Tennessee, where he made a National reputa- 

 tion as an intelligent, energetic and zealous worker. He 

 was also a delegate to the National meeting at Meridian, 

 Mississippi, in December, 1888. Here he served on 

 several important committees, and contributed much 

 towards effecting a consolidation of the two Orders. Capt. 

 Hickman is a man of undoubted integrity and ability. 

 Under his administration the Order in Missouri has made 

 rapid progress. In the Democratic Convention, in 1890, 

 he received the nomination for Railroad Commission for 

 the State of Missouri. Born and reared among the labor- 

 ing classes, his sympathies are naturally alive to their 

 wants and necessities. He is one of the most popular 

 members of the organization in his State. 





