The Coshocton Age March 18, 1865 Saturday
Obituary Capt. Charles NICHOLS Editor of Age: To correct numerous misstatements and for the information of friends, I will thank you to publish the sub-joined letter of Colonel HOGE and the remarks following (this letter to the editor of the Age is from Capt Nichols father, Eli NICHOLS): He’d QR 183 O., Vols 3d Brig, 2d Div, 23 d. A. C. Washington D.C. February 11, 1865 Eli Nichols, Esq., Dear Sir – I presume you have heard of the death of your son Capt. Charles Nichols. I, however, feel it a duty to write you upon the occasion of your bereavement, owing to the relation in which I stood to him as his commanding officer. He had been sick for sometime, but of a persevering spirit and kept up longer than he should have done. His death was within a very few days after he went to the hospital in Clinton, Tenn where we were then encamped. He died of dysentery 14th. I take pleasure in giving the consoling assurance as an officer he tried to do his duty and inexperience as a soldier, he was brave and patriotic. In the battle of Franklin where the battle raged most furiously great ?(unreadable) and gallantry and his conduct in the battle of Nashville, was that of a brave man. As to his spiritual condition, the Chaplain in his funeral sermon spoke hopefully from interviews he had with him shortly before his death. I deeply regret owing to a most unaccountable blunder his remains did not reach Newark at the time you were no doubt led to expect them. I was surprised to learn upon inquizing at Columbus that his remains were left behind at the Dry Dock Landing, Cincinnati. The company in the confusion of loading the train at dark failed to get it on, no particular men having been designated in the company to take care of the body, as I supposed would have been the case. I have not yet learned whether the body has reached you. The lieutenant commanding the company however telegraphed in relation to the body from Columbus. I wish to hear from you whether you have come into possession of the remains and what disposition has been made of them as where buried, when, and such particulars as you desire to communicate. Yours truly, G. W. HOGE Col 183d Ohio Volunteers. (Note from transcriber: The following is a letter attached to the one from the Colonel. It is from Charles’s father Eli.) The deceased was forty-two years and eighteen days old when he died. His body arrived at home on Saturday the 18th and was buried next day, borne to our family burying ground by our kind neighbors and friends. He was a child of ups and downs. He was present at the first sack of Lawrence, Kansas and gave his aid in making it a free state. He afterwards went with the first Kansas Company to Colorado or Pikes Peak and took an interest in laying out st Charles which afterwards became Denver City. He made and lost money – Finally undertook the expensive opening of a gulch, spent all he had on it, and did not find golden paying quantities and returned home in the spring of 1863. He often expressed regret that he had not accepted the offer of a Captain’s commission with a promise of a promotion by the Governor of Colorado at the breaking out of the war; and often said the thought it was his duty to go to the army. His mother and brothers and sisters opposed his going, but as he had seen much ?? (unreadable), I hoped he might stand it well and interposed no objection. He left for Newark the day after the fall of the election and the letter of Col. Hoge tells the result. Thousands have died that slavery might live and extend, he gave his life for liberty and his country.

The Coshocton Age March 25, 1865 Saturday
John HUFF an old citizen of this place, a cooper by trade, died suddenly of consumption, Monday last.

The Coshocton Age June 16, 1865 Saturday
The remains of John MIRISE who died at Nashville a few days since, arrived here Thursday, and will be buried at Roscoe this (Friday) afternoon. Obit next week.

The Coshocton Age July 26, 1865 Saturday
Died on Thursday morning, June 22, 1865 at his residence in Canton, O. William MeDILL, in the 74th year of his age. Mr. Medill formerly resided in Coshocton, was the father of Joseph Medill, who at one time printed the Whig at this place, and who is now one of the proprietors of the Chicago Tribune.

The Coshocton Age July 26, 1865 Saturday
Died at New Castle, Coshocton co., O., June 21st ’65, Leonidas J. LEWIS, in his 29th year. Of the youth and early education of Mr. Lewis, I know but little. My acquaintance with him, at most, was limited and some what imperfect. The time of our first introduction was about two years ago, since which I have enjoyed his society several times – Judging from my knowledge of his family connections, as well as from my acquaintance with him, I am led to say that his youth was characterized by an obedient disposition, a gentle temper, a quiet demeanor and a pleasant loving spirit. As to his literary attainments, through his father died when he was quite young, he succeeded in qualifying himself for any of the common pursuits of life. For several years he had been engaged as clerk in the mercantile business first in Mt. Vernon, then in Columbus, where he labored till his farm was so wasted and weakened by disease that he was compelled to retire from business and return to his home. His disease was consumption; ;which, while it preyed upon his vitals, flutters him with the hope of getting well. Though his physician in Columbus gave up all hope of his recovery before he left there, yet his friends had no idea that his end was so near. He was able to sit up and converse almost to the last. For several weeks before he died there seemed to be, at times, a peculiar seriousness in his mind. When his friends found that he must die, they spoke to him of his views of death. He felt that he was prepared but had not as bright an evidence as he desired. Later they spoke to him, again he said, “I have experience something in the last two or three days that I never did before – religion” Also that he had “loved the church more for the past six or eight months than ever before,” and that he did not “think now, as in the pasts, that religion would make a young man or young lady older” but thought it “would be good in health, good in sickness, good in death, and better than all after death”. In his last moments, when his eyes were set in death, he seemed to be conversing in the spirit world telling his former views and how they were changed --- Turning to his mother, brother and sisters, he said, as he was just stepping down into the dark turbid waters of that sea that divides ours from that better land, “Good-bye all for a while.” Thurs passed away one whom I, too, had learned to esteem. Friends, let him sleep on where we laid him in his bed of earth, and in the Springtime as you visit his resting place to week over his silent dust, let the gentle, opening rose planted on his grave by the hand of affection remind you of a Springtime when that form shall open into a new, a heavenly, a glorious and eternal life. R. A. DISNEY

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