Soldier:  Joseph Wiseman Nichols

Regiment:  174^th. 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