"TO HIS BELOVED WIFE
AND CHILDREN"
ANDREW JACKSON NICKELL
(1828-1863)
Updated October 6, 2008
ABRAHAM LINCOLN QUOTATIONS -- THOUGHTS & WISDOM FOR 2008:
"The fiery ordeal through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.""Populists patronize the poor by pandering to them." Lincoln was warning us of Barry Hussein Obama!
"Fearlessness for the right is a better thing than fearfulness for peace." Let our strong desire for peace not create a naive vaccuum that will allow Islamic terrorism to return to American soil.
"A man is known by the company he keeps." We should definitely be concerned with the company Barry Hussein Obama keeps! His friends say nothing good about him: Rev. Jeremiah Wright (pastor of 20 years), Antoin "Tony" Rezko (convicted developer/fund raiser), Bill Ayers (Weatherman Terrorist), Jim Johnson (Countrywide FOA), James Cone (Black Liberation Theologist), Fr. Michael Pfleger (Radical Priest), et cetera, et cetera. Obama's list of "bad company" only keeps growing! Time confirms greater concern regarding Obama's choice of associations. Yes...there should be a definite and growing concern with the company Obama keeps...
"The Almighty has His own purposes." Pray the Lord will spare our Nation from the mis-guided populist elitism of Barry Hussein Obama.
Then consider this frightening Barry Hussein Obama quotation from his book, The Audacity of Hope, "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction" (p. 261). Recall 9-11, then onsider this statement.
Wake up folks. Our Nation's economy is spiraling downward, and we cannot afford Barry Hussein Obama or his populist policies. The $750 Billion bail out has already spent Barry's entitlement monies for at least the next eight years.
Remember your macro-economic studies? Barry's Keynesian economic policies will only accelerate the effects of our severe economic decline. Increased tax burden creates negative incentive. Just as with children, it is important to postively reward good behavior, and to punish negative behavior. Growth must be incentivized and rewarded...not punished with higher taxes. Barry's election will signal absolute disaster for our nation's economy.
Just as Lincoln warned, Barry is nothing but another populist, and he will only create class warfare and a redistribution of wealth. For every $1.00 he will give to the disenfranchised, Barry's policies will cost that same person $10.00 in lost opportunity costs. Populists pander to the poor and fail to deliver. Why would Barry want to deliver, and risk losing his disenfranchised audience?
McCain is not perfect, but his policies will not punish growth. Growth must be rewarded if we are to get out of this economic hole we find ourselves. Get the populist liberals who created this mess out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and allow honest growth to begin.
We should not expect "change" from a community organizer who has done nothing for his constituency other than to vote "present" and to advance his personal agenda. Barry has no real record or achievements
MAKE TIME TO UNDERSTAND THE FACTS -- THEN VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN & SARAH PALIN!
AMERICA FIRST -- BEFORE POPULIST CHICAGO POLITICS!
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Andrew Jackson
Nickell 114th Ohio Volunteers |
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Andrew's Tombstone
Mounds National Military Cemetery (IL) |
Andrew Jackson Nickell was my great-great-grandfather. During the Civil War, Andrew proudly served with the
114th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.) Company E. During his service to the Federal cause, he participated in the Vicksburg Campaign and part of the Siege of Vicksburg. Andrew departed "this mortal life" aboard the Federal hospital ship U.S.S. January on June 16, 1863 just eighteen days before Vicksburg's surrender on July 4, 1863. He left behind his wife, Isabel Ramey Nickell and three (soon to be four) young children. Their oldest child, Elias Dolison "Doc" Nickell (1857-1935) was my great-grandfather.
Isabel "Belle" saved roughly thirty letters written by Andrew during his service and tenure as a Federal soldier. For over 140 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 page is created as a tribute to Andrew Jackson Nickell, and to the memory of all Civil War veterans both Union and Confederate. These letters have also been assembled in a comb bound interpretive and narrative book now available for distribution.
Andrew was the fifth generation of the Scots-Irish Nickell's in America. Andrew's first American ancestor was John Nickell who emigrated from County Tyrone (Northern) Ireland (near Gortin) in the 1740's, settling in Virginia's western frontier in what is now Greenbrier and Monroe Counties, West Virginia. Two of Andrew's ancestors, his great-grandfather, Thomas Nickell and a great-great uncle, Isaac Nickell, fought in Lord Dunmore's War and at the Battle of Point Pleasant. This frontier engagement of the American Revolution served to end Indian resistance along the colonial frontier.
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. The land remains in the Nickell family today.
* Andrew's older brother Robert Calvary Nickell/Nickle moved to Madison County, Iowa prior to the Civil War. Robert enlisted in the 39th Iowa Infantry, Company F, holding the rank of Sergeant. Andrew and Isabel must have thought well of Robert Calvary, as they named their second son Robert Calvary as well (younger brother to my Elias "Doc" Nickell).
Abraham Lincoln
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I. Andrew Becomes a Soldier... |
II. Headed South... |
III. The First Fights... |
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IV. Laying In Camp... |
V. Milliken's Bend |
VI. Last Letters... |
VII. Captain Abraham... |
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VIII. From An Unknown Writer... |
IX. Epilogue... |
X. Honoring Other Civil War Ancestors... |
"THE CIVIL WAR JOURNAL OF ANDREW JACKSON NICKELL (1828-1863)"
Updated October 6, 2008