One of the strange Incidents of the War
--We read in the
Greenville (Ala.) Weekly Observer, as obituary notice of
Sergeant Major Nichols who was recently killed by a Minnie ball at Salem Church, Va. He was a native of
Philadelphia but had been for eight years a citizen of the
South.
At the time of his death he was a member of the
Jeff Davis Rangers, a company from
Greenville, and had signalled his devotion to the
South.
The strange part of the story of his life is, that his father is a
Brigadier General in
Lincoln's service, and at one time a little previous to the
battle of Sharpsburg in September last, his son and himself were only ten miles apart, one at the head of troops, marching to devastate the homes of freedom, the other fighting bravely in defence of the cause of right and justice.