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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John B. Nichols

(c. 1833 - 1863)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 29, he enlisted in Company H, First Texas Infantry on 20 March 1862 at Kickapoo, TX.

On the Campaign

He was promoted to 3rd Sergeant at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was killed in action at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Simpson.1

Birth

c. 1833

Death

07/02/1863; Gettysburg, PA

Notes

1   Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 62  [AotW citation 20983]