Thomas Pleasant Dockery

Brigadier-General Thomas Pleasant Dockery (December 18, 1833 – February 26, 1898) was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who served in both the Western and Trans-Mississippi theaters of the American Civil War.

Dockery's regiment was assigned to Nicholas Bartlett Pearce's Division, Arkansas State Troops, and participated in the Battle of Wilson's Creek, August 10, 1861.

After the Battle of Pea Ridge, most Confederate units were withdrawn from Arkansas to the east side of the Mississippi River.

[3] Dockery commanded the 19th Arkansas Infantry in Martin E. Green's 2nd Brigade in John S. Bowen's Division during the Vicksburg campaign.

At the Battle of Big Black River Bridge on May 17, the brigade was overrun, losing one killed, nine wounded, and 1,012 captured.

Commemorative plaque image at the Vicksburg National Military Park (2015)