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Nash, Alfred - Residence: Trenton, Michigan; Occupation: Physician
Enlistment date: 22August1861; Union; State Served: Michigan
Born: 12Aug1828; Died: 21June1917 - Joliet, IL
Enlisted as Assistant Surgeon, 22 Aug1861; Age 33; Co S - 1st Cavalry Regiment Michigan
Promoted to Full Surgeon, 1December1862 - Co S, 9th Cavalry Regiment Michigan 24Dec1862
Received a disability discharge Co. S, 9th Cavalry Regiment Michigan 12Dec1864
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Will County Illinois USGenWeb Necrologist Reports (© 2002 The ILGenWeb Project All Rights Reserved):
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Additional Biographical Material:
Excerpted from Joliet Sunday Herald, Vol.6, No. 154, Front page, 22May,1910.
An article titled, "War Veteran Lives Unknown for 20 Years", spotlighted four elderly Civil War veterans living in the Joliet area and members of the Frederick A. Bartleson G.A.R. post.
" ...Dr. Alfred Nash, 305 Cass Street, is the last of the quartet. He is 80 years of age. The doctor enlisted in December, 1862, as assistant surgeon in the First Michigan cavalry, and later was promoted to chief surgeon of the Ninth Michigan cavalry. He joined the Bartleson [GAR] post here in 1884, two years after it was organized..."