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Federal (USV)

Private

George Nicklas

(1835 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 108th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

He came to the US in 1855 to avoid the draft into French Army serice. Butcher in Rochester til enlistment. He was in Company I.

The rest of the War

Detailed as Brigade butcher after Antietam for the War.

After the War

Farmed in Verona, WI after the War.

References & notes

Basic information from Washburn1.

Birth

1/29/1835; Alsace, FRANCE

Notes

1   Washburn, George H., A Complete Military History and Record of the 108th Regiment N.Y. Vols., Rochester (NY): Press of E.R. Andrews, 1894, pp. 286 - 296  [AotW citation 8977]