George D. Nixon

In 1860 he was a 20 year old bookkeeper living with prosperous merchant George W Fisher and family at Cayuga in Hines County, MS. He mustered as a Private in Company A, 12th Mississippi Infantry at Corinth, MS on 30 April 1861. He was appointed 3rd Lieutenant after February 1862.

He was wounded in the head in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 7 March 1863 (to date from 24 July 1862) and was promoted to First Lieutenant on 18 July 1863. He was wounded and captured at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864, was at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC to 17 June, afterward a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 16 June 1865, when he was released after taking an oath of allegiance.

By 1870 he was a farmer living near his brother Thomas and their father at Bear Creek in Hinds County, MS. By 1880 he was a bookkeeper at Edwards in Hinds County.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Laura A Harris (1843-1909) in June 1866 and they had 7 children.

c. 1840 in MS

06/20/1896; Hinds County, MS; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, MS