Oliver Hart Dockery

A 5-9 planter, Dockery was born in Richmond County, North Carolina on August 12, 1830. He attended Wake Forest but graduated from the University of North Carolina. He became captain of E company of the 38th North Carolina in October 1861 and later rose to lieutenant colonel by January 1862. He was defeated for re-election in April 1862. After the War, he served in the North Carolina legislature as a scalwag. He ran for governor but was defeated. He later served in Congress, dying in Baltimore on March 21, 1906. Dockery is buried in Mangum, North Carolina.