Soldier:  Elias Cornelius Nicholas

Regiment:  3^rd. OVI

Company:  I

Age:  20

Date Entering Service:  4/25/1861  re-enlisted 6/15/1861

Period of Service:   1 year, 8 months, 9 days

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):  Achieved the rank of Sergeant. Suffered a gun shot wound to the head at the Battle of Stone River, Tennessee on 1/31/1862.  Discharged 2/24/1863.

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Rich Mountain, West Virginia                            7/6/1861

Battle of Elkwater, West Virginia                                     7/11/1861

Battle of Bridgeport, Alabama                                         4/29/1862

Battle of Perryville, Kentucky                                          10/8/1862

Battle of Stone River, Tennessee                                    12/31/1862

Other interesting information discovered:  Elias Cornelius Nicholas was born in the year of 1841. He married Susan E Shenck in Morrow County on 12/22/1867. In 1880 he was living in Toledo, Ohio and was employed as a carriage trimmer. The 1890 census shows Elias living in Cardington, Ohio.  He applied for an invalid’s pension on 12/18/1863.  His wife Susan applied for a widow’s pension on 4/4/1881.

Date of Death:  2/27/1881

Place of burial:  Forest Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio

Researcher:  Velda L Montgomery