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"TO HIS BELOVED WIFE ANDREW JACKSON NICKELL (1828-1863) (Please scroll ↓down↓ to view the Andrew Jackson Nickell Web Site) Updated September 21, 2012
IN LOVING TRIBUTE
My dear father passed September 23, 2009. He was the great-grandson of Civil War Andrew Jackson Nickell and the custodian of Andrew's Civil War letters. My father enjoyed a full and successful life of 88 years. He was a human resources professional, and a veteran of both WWII and the Korean War. Most importantly he had a strong Christian faith, and was a wonderful father and husband. He was truly a great man, and I miss him very much.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN QUOTATIONS: THOUGHTS & WISDOM
"I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich. to do for them what they can and should do for themselves.
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“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery ... for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” ―Winston Churchill
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WHO WAS ANDREW JACKSON NICKELL?
Andrew Jackson Nickell (1828-1863) was my 2x-great-grandfather. Andrew proudly served with the
114th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.), Company E during the Civil War. In his service with the Federal cause, Andrew participated in the Vicksburg Campaign and the Siege of Vicksburg.
Andrew "put off this mortal life" aboard the Federal hospital ship U.S.S. January on June 16, 1863 just eighteen days before the surrender of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863. Left behind was his wife, Isabelle Ramey Nickell and three (soon to be four) young children. Their oldest child, Elias Dolison "Doc" Nickell (1857-1935) was my great-grandfather.
Isabelle "Belle" saved roughly thirty letters written by Andrew during his service as a Federal soldier. For over 150 years, my Nickell family has carefully preserved Andrew's letters that are now in my custodianship. These priceless letters represent a Federal soldier's first person account or Civil War Journal. This web site is created as a tribute to Andrew Jackson Nickell, and to the memory of all Civil War veterans both Union and Confederate. These letters are also available in a comb-bound interpretive and narrative book available for distribution.
Andrew was the fifth generation of the Scots-Irish Nickell's in America. Andrew's first American ancestor was "Papa John" Nickell (1720-1774) who emigrated from County Tyrone (Northern) Ireland (near Gortin) in the 1740's, settling in Virginia's rugged western frontier in what later became Greenbrier and Monroe Counties of West Virginia. Two of Andrew's ancestors, his great-grandfather, Thomas Nickell and a 2x-great uncle, Isaac Nickell, served as guides in Lord Dunmore's War and at the Battle of Point Pleasant. Their younger brother Joseph Nickell was an active combatant in the Battle. This engagement of the American Revolution served to end Indian resistance along the colonial frontier and into southern Ohio.
Andrew's parents, Robert and Nancy Ann Morehead Nickell were born and raised in the rugged frontier region of (West) Virginia. They relocated to
Jackson County, Ohio soon after the opening of the Northwest Territories in the 1820's. Robert and Nancy Ann purchased eighty acres of land in
Richland Township, and in 1850 this land became part of
Vinton County, Ohio. This land remains in one line of the Nickell family today.
* Andrew's older brother Robert Calvary Nickell/Nickle moved to Madison County, Iowa about 1850 and prior to the Civil War. Robert enlisted in the 39th Iowa Infantry, Company F, and held the rank of Sergeant. Andrew and Isabelle must have thought well of Robert Calvary, as they named their second son Robert Calvary as well (the younger brother of my great-grandfather, Elias "Doc" Nickell).
* No revisionist history or political correctness! The above are links to actual journal letters, transcribed exactly as
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I. Andrew Becomes a Soldier... |
II. Headed South... |
III. The First Fights... |
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
