author
D. A. (David Augustus) Dickert
1844–1917
A Confederate veteran turned historian, he is best known for preserving the story of Kershaw’s Brigade in a detailed Civil War regimental history first published in 1899. His writing remains a useful window into how former soldiers remembered the war in the late nineteenth century.
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History of Kershaw's Brigade With Complete Roll of Companies, Biographical Sketches, Incidents, Anecdotes, etc.
by D. A. (David Augustus) Dickert
About the author
Born in South Carolina in the mid-1840s and later known as D. Augustus Dickert, he served in the Confederate army during the American Civil War. He was closely associated with the 3rd South Carolina Volunteers and later wrote from the perspective of someone who had lived through the campaigns he described.
His best-known work is History of Kershaw's Brigade, with Complete Roll of Companies, Biographical Sketches, Incidents, Anecdotes, etc., published in 1899. The book combines military narrative, roster material, and personal recollections, making it part history and part veterans' memorial.
Dickert died in 1917. While relatively little biographical information is easy to confirm online, his book has endured through library scans and reprints, and it continues to be consulted by readers interested in Civil War history, South Carolina troops, and firsthand-era remembrance.