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A.A. Nickerson
(1840 - 1926)
Home State: Maine
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Maine Infantry
Before Antietam
Son of a Methodist clergyman, in 1860 he was a 19 year old tailor and lived with his parents and 5 siblings in Fairfield, ME. He enrolled there as 2nd Lieutenant of Company E, 7th Maine Infantry on 16 August 1861 and was promoted to First Lieutenant, probably by 21 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was transferred to Company B in March 1863. He was wounded in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864 and promoted to Captain of Company G in June 1864. He was transferred to the First Maine Veteran Infantry on 21 August 1864 and was discharged on 23 March 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a sewing machine dealer in in Phillips, ME, but by 1880 and to at least 1910 he was again a tailor, with a shop in Portland, ME. In 1920, 80 years old, he was still a tailor, by then in Norridgewock, Somerset County, ME.
References & notes
His service from the Adjutant General1 and the Card File.2 His presence at Antietam from Major Hyde in his memoir.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a CDV at the Maine State Archives.
He married Florence Adele Carr (1843-1913) in June 1863 and they had a son Harry Melville Nickerson (1865-1906). He married again, Irish-born Elizabeth P McKitterick (1881-) in December 1916.
Birth
10/19/1840; Skowhegan, ME
Death
03/11/1926; Norridgewock, ME; burial in Mercer Village Cemetery, Mercer, ME
1 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, Appendix D, pg. 264 [AotW citation 29233]
2 State of Maine, Maine State Archives, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865, Augusta (ME): Department of the Secretary of State, c. 2000 [AotW citation 29234]
3 Hyde, Thomas Worcester, Following the Greek Cross or Memories of the Sixth Army Corps, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894, pg. 104 [AotW citation 29235]