Soldier: Levi Nixon
Regiment: 96th. OVI
Company: E
Age: 27
Date Entering Service: August 6, 1862
Period of Service: 3 Years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed): Mustered out on March 15, 1864; transferred to 120th. OVI, Company C. Mustered out on June 29, 1865 at Evansville, Ind.
Battles in which he fought:
Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss. Dec. 28-29, 1862
Arkansas Post, Ark. Jan. 11, 1863
Vicksburg, Miss. May 18-July 4, 1863
Jackson, Miss. July 9-16, 1863
Grand Coteau, La. Nov. 3, 1863
Other interesting information discovered: Levi Nixon was born in Cardington Township and resided in the area at the start of the war. In 1859 he married Louisa Malcom. In 1870 the family was living at Bogle, Missouri; by 1900 Boone, Oklahoma and 1910 North Choctaw, Oklahoma.
Date of Death: December 9, 1912
Place of burial: White Dove Cemetery, Sparks, OK.
Researcher: Patrick Drouhard