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Confederate (CSV)

Private

A. W. Nichols

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Austin as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled at Sharpsburg on 21 September He was back with his Company by November 1862, but sick in Richmond in February and March 1863. He was sick again in May and June and furloughed home to Austin for 30 days on 6 July. When he didn't return in August 1863 he was listed as absent without leave. He was paroled in Austin on 27 July 1865.

After the War

He was night watchman at the State Capitol in Austin "for many years."

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as A.W. Nicholls. His post-war occupation from Val C. Giles in the Confederate Veteran.3

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 150 - 152 [AotW citation 1686]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26787]

3 United Confederate Veterans, and United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans, Confederate Veteran Magazine (1893-1932), 1893-01-00, Vol. 26, No. 1 (January 1918), pg. 22 [AotW citation 26788]

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