Nichols, Langdon H.
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MILITARY SERVICE Age: 24, credited to Roxbury, VT Unit(s): 1st VT CAV Service: enl 10/3/61, m/i 11/19/61, CPL, Co. C, 1st VT CAV, pow, Strasburg, VA, 5/24/62, Lynchburg, d/prison 7/27/62 (apoplexy); originally buried Lynchburg See Legend for expansion of abbreviations VITALSBirth: 1837, Roxbury, VT Death: 07/27/1862 Burial: Poplar Grove National Cemetery, Petersburg, VA Marker/Plot: 4734 Gravestone photographer: Tom Ledoux Findagrave Memorial #: 76069709 Cenotaph: Roxbury Cemetery, Roxbury, VT Marker/Plot: Gravestone researcher/photographer: Heidi McColgan Findagrave Memorial #: 0 (There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it) MORE INFORMATION Alias?: None noted Pension?: Yes, widow Maria S., 12/29/1862 Portrait?: Unknown College?: Not Found Veterans Home?: Not Found (If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war) Remarks: None DESCENDANTS (Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today) |
BURIAL: Copyright notice  Poplar Grove National Cemetery, VA Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there. CENOTAPH:   Cenotaph at Roxbury Cemetery, Roxbury, VT Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may have cenotaphs there. |
Obituary
Among the paroled prisoners recently arrived from the vicinity of Richmond were most of the Vermont cavalry prisoners. The following list of the Vermont cavalry prisoners who died at Lynchburg is given by a correspondent of the Burlington Times:
Joseph Taylor, private, Co. G, died July 1;
Langdon H. Nichols, corporal, Co. C, died July 29;
----- Reynolds, private, Co. G, died July 29;
----- Wickware, private, Co. G, died July 29;
Albert Kennerson, private, Co. D, died August 6;v Merrit Bessett, private, Co. F, died August 5.
Source: Bellows Falls Times, 26 Sep1862.
Courtesy of Deanna French