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Allison helped on the family farm near Waynesboro, Tennessee, until American Civil War began when he was 21.

On October 15, 1861, he enlisted the Confederate States Army in Captain W. H. Jackson's Artillery Battery.

Three months later, however, he was medically discharged because an old head injury: " Incapable of performing the duties of a soldier because of a blow received many years ago.

Emotional or physical excitement produces paroxymals of a mixed character, partly epileptic and partly maniacal.