Nick Carnochan

Son of a prosperous saddle & harness maker, in 1860 he was a 17 year old student living with his parents, 5 siblings, and his maternal grandmother at Wetumpka in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted there on 19 April 1861 and mustered as a Musician in Company I, 3rd Alabama Infantry. In January 1862 he transferred as a Private to Company I, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was captured on 15 September 1862 at Boonsboro, MD near the battlefield of the previous day at Turner's Gap on South Mountain.

He was held at Fort Delaware to 2 October, when he was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862 and then was absent on sick furlough to about April 1863. He was captured again, in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and held at Point Lookout, MD to 27 July 1864, when he was transferred to Elmira, NY. He was in the smallpox ward of the post hospital there in February 1865 (and sent a telegram to his uncle J F Dewitt in Oswego, NY on the occasion). He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there and was released on 16 June 1865.

In 1880 he was a trading agent living with his parents and 3 siblings (but not wife) at Rome in Floyd County, GA. By 1900 and to at least 1910 he owned and ran a restaurant at Conroe in Montgomery County, TX. He had retired there by 1920.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Kate (?, 1846-1936) in about 1872; they had no children.

07/24/1843 in AL

04/27/1929; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Conroe, TX