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Federal (USV)

Private

Jerome Nichols

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old day laborer living with his parents and 3 younger siblings in Litchfield, CT. He enlisted on 17 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of his wound at Sharpsburg on 17 October 1862.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Banks.1 His service from the Record.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1842 in CT

Death

10/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12538]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 343 [AotW citation 30635]

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