Soldier: Joseph Wiseman Nichols
Regiment: 174th. OVI
Company: A
Age: 19
Date Entering Service: 7/23/1864
Period of Service: 11 months
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed): Mustered out with Company on 6/28/1865
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee 12/4/1864
Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee 12/5/1864
Battle of Wyse Fork, North Carolina 3/7/1865
Other interesting information discovered: Joseph Wiseman Nichols was born in New York on 10/27/1844. He married Sarah R Heidelbaugh in Dayton, Ohio on 10/1/1874, six children were born of this union. Joseph lived in Cardington as a young boy. After the War he lived in the Springfield and Dayton, Ohio area and became a journey carpenter. He worked as a pattern maker and cabinet maker. Joseph collected an invalid’s pension on 7/28/1890. He was admitted to the National Hospital for Disabled Soldiers in Dayton, Ohio and died of a cerebral hemorrhage on 6/9/1920, his wife, Sarah collected a widow’s pension on 7/31/1920.
Date of Death: 6/9/1920
Place of burial: Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio
Researcher: Velda L Montgomery