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Note: Summary,Compiled Service Record, John C. Nash
Company A Muster Rolls, June 30, 1861. Listed as Private in Company A, 3rd Virginia Regiment , the
Dismal Swamp Rangers under Capt. James Choate. Age 20,occupation : carpenter.
On the muster roll from April 20 to June 30, 1861. Enrolled for active service: April 20, 1861at Portsmouth, VA by Capt. Jas Hodges. Mustered into service April 30, 1861 at the Naval Hospital by Lt. Col. G.G. Garrison.
August 31, 1861: Listed as present on the Company Muster Roll for July and August, 1861, Portsmouth, Va.
October 31, 1861: Listed as Corporal. Present on the Company Muster Roll for September and October, 1861, Portsmouth, Va.
December 31, 1861: Present on the Company Muster Roll for November and December, 1861, Portsmouth, Va.
February 28, 1862: Present on the Company Muster Roll for January and February, 1862, Portsmouth, Va. Remarks: "sick in Quarters."
July 1, 1862 : Absent for Company Muster Roll for May and June, 1862. Remarks: " Wounded in battle of Frazier farm June 30, 1862 and now in hospital in Richmond, Va". Re-enlisted March 22, 1862 at
Camp Pemburton for "2 years or war."
December 31, 1862: Absent from Company Muster Roll for June 30 to December, 1862. Remarks: Appointed 4th Sergeant from 4th Corporal September, 1862. Absent wounded in Richmond, Va.
April 30, 1863: Present for Company Muster Roll for December 31,1862 to April 30, 1863.
June 30, 1863: Absent for Company Muster Roll for May and June, 1863. Remarks: "sick in hospital."
August 31, 1863: Present for Company Muster Roll for July and August 1863 , Camp Pemburton
October 31, 1863: Present for Company Muster Roll for September and October, 1863, Camp Pemburton
December 31, 1863: Present for Company Muster Roll for November and December, 1863, Camp Pemburton
February 29, 1864: Present for Company Muster Roll for January and February, 1864, Greenville, North Carolina. Re-enlisted March, 1864 for the "war."
April 30, 1864: Present for Company Muster Roll for March and April, 1864, Greenville, North Carolina. Promoted to 3rd Sergeant.
June 30, 1864: Present for Company Muster Roll for May and June, 1864, Greenville, North Carolina
August 31, 1864: Present for Company Muster roll for July and August, 1864. Greenville, North Carolina.
John C. Nash, Sergeant, appears on a List of Confederate prisoners who have been paroled not to take up arms against the United States Government until regularly exchanged. List bears the following
endorsement: Headquarters 9th A.C. Provost Marshal�s Office. Total, 1614. At Barkesville Junction, Va. on the 14th, 15th 16th and 17th days of April, 1865.
Reports
July 11, 1862: John C. Nash appears on a list of causalities, of the 5th Brigade (Pryor�s), in the
engagements around Richmond, Va., June 26 to July, 1862. Remarks: "wounded."
Appears on a Register for General Hospital no. 8 (St. Charles Hospital), Richmond , Va. Admitted October 4, 1862, furloughed 30 days, November 12, 1862. Disease: bronchitis
Appears on a Register of Chimborazo Hospital, No.2, Richmond, Virginia.
Admitted September 11, 1863 retuned to duty September 13,1863.
Disease: Diarrhea
The 3rd Virginia Regiment was part of Pickett's, Kemper's Brigade, at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.
See Notes: NASH, Rebecca, 1850 Federal Census
Unable to find John on an 1860 Census in either Davie County, NC or Norfolk County, VA. His brothers were in Dinwiddie County, VA (James) and Norfolk County, VA (William H. ) in 1860.
1870 CENSUS: Norfolk, VA; Washington Township; 24 Jun 1870; page 40 - 41; dwelling #289; family # 294.
NASH, John C., 29 y/oWM, farmer, value of personal estate: $500, born North
Carolina. " Louisanna, 24 y/o WF, keeping house, born VA. Osceola, 2 y/o WM, born VA. GLEMING, Jno 14WM, farmer, born VA. 1880 Federal Census: Washington Magistrate and District, Norfolk County, Virginia
June 4, 1880, ED #65, page #23-34, dwelling 213, family #241
NASH, John C., 39 y/o WM, married, house carpenter, unemployed 2 months
during the last year, born in North Carolina, parents born in Virginia
" Louisanna, 35 y/o WF, wife, married, keeping house, born in Virginia, parents
born in Virginia " Osceola, 12 y/o WM, son, single, at school, born in Virginia, father born in
North Carolina, mother born in Virginia " Rebecca, 9 y/o WF, daughter, single, born in Virginia, father born in North
Carolina, mother born in Virginia Obituary, from the Norfolk Virginian, Saturday, June 11, 1887, front page, Vol XLIV, no. 19. Price was 2 cents).
Mr. John C. Nash, well-known in this place, died at his residence yesterday at 1 o'clock, after a long illness from consumption. Mr. Nash had suffered with the disease for several months, but had only been confined to his bed for the last three months. He was a member of the Mason, Odd Fellows and Pythian Orders, and was highly respected by a large number of friends The funeral will take place from the Chestnut Street M. E. Church tomorrow morning.
From the Norfolk Virginian, Tuesday, June 14, 1887, front page.
The funeral of Mr. John C. Nash, of Berkley, took place at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the Chestnut M. E. Church, and was largely attended. The lodge of Masons, Odd Fellows and Pythians, of which the deceased was a member, were in attendance in a body. The sevices were conducted by the pastor of the church, of which Mr. Nash was a devoted and consistant member, and Rev. George S. Hobday, of Berkley Avenue Baptist Church, assisted in the exercises. At their conclusion the remains were borne to their last resting place in the old family burial ground. The following were the pallbearers:
Masons - J. R. Walke Jr. and George Wrenn
Odd Fellows -- Clarence Dunn
Pythians -- K.W. Halstead
Citizens - Wilson Beale
All the pallbearers were selected by the deceased who up to the last retained his mental faculty to a remarkable degree.
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