Nicholas Nichols
Name: Nicholas Nichols
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 19th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: William Eader
Place of Birth/Residence: Frederick City, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: 12/08/1863
Company: B
Slave at Enlistment?: Yes
Rank at End of Service: Sergeant
Notes:
Born c. 1839; Enlisted and manumitted 12/8/1863 in Frederick, MD; Deserted from Camp Birney; Arrested and diagnosed with small pox on 4/27/1864; Mustered out 1/15/1867 in Brownsville, Texas.
Source(s):
Maryland Comptroller of the Treasury, "Bounty Rolls, 1864-1880," S629, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD, microfilm copy at Maryland Room, Frederick County Public Libraries, Frederick, MD, 189, left; Adjutant General, "Civil War Muster Rolls, 1864-1867," MSA-S-936-51, Folder No. 55, Maryland State Archives, Annapolis, MD; Records of the Adj. General’s Office, 1780-1971, Record Group 94, Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served with the United States Colored Troops, M1822, National Archives, Washington, DC; Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 286; U.S. Adjutant General, Maryland Slave Claims Commission, "Register of Claims, 1864-1867," Number 149, Record Group 94, Entry 350, National Archives, Washington, DC (digital copy online at Maryland State Archives, MSA-SC-4678); L. Tilden Moore, mss. Notes on USCT soldier burial sites, Catoctin Center for Regional Studies, Frederick, MD; Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers, National Archives, Washington, DC, as scanned on Ancestry.com, U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1861-1865 [database on-line]; Frederick County Circuit Court, Land Records, Liber JWLC 1, page 208.
