Maj A.S. Nicholson

Info added per DAR's "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" by Mary S Lockwood and published 1895 Lieutenant Colonel, United States Marine Corps. On February 2, 1852 as Augustus S. Nicholson, he married Jane Finley Jessup in the District of Columbia.

The Barclays of New York, by R. Burnham Moffat, Robert Grier Cooke, Publisher, New York, 1904. Augustus Satterthwaite Nicholson (U.S.M.C.), born November 5, 1830; (living 1903); married February 3, 1852, Jane Findlay Jesup (living 1903). Child: Augustus Jesup Nicholson (U.S.N.), born November 19, 1852; died May 22, 1893; married August 19, 1882, Charlotte Gunn (living 1903). O.S.P.

The Evening Star Tuesday, November 7, 1911 Lieut. Col. Nicholson Victim Of Paralysis Retired Officer, Distinguished in Two Wars, Dies in This City Lieut. Colonel Augustus S. Nicholson, a distinguished retired officer of the United States Marine Corps, died at his home, 1718 N Street, yesterday afternoon in the eighty-first year of his age. He was stricken with paralysis about a year ago and had been in poor health since. His wife, a daughter of the late General Jessup of Mexican War fame, was with him at the time of his death. He was the brother of Leonard L. Nicholson and Henry D. Nicholson and the uncle of Rear Admiral Reginald F. Nicholson of the navy and Major William Nicholson of the 7th Cavalry.

Funeral Thursday Morning Funeral services will be held at St. John’s Protestant Episcopal Church Thursday morning at 11 o’clock and burial will be made in the family lot in Oak Hill Cemetery. A battalion of marines will escort the funeral party from the church to the cemetery and full military honors will be observed at the grave.

Colonel Nicholson was one of the youngest officers ever appointed to the military service of the government. He was born in Washington and was commissioned second lieutenant of marines in March 1847, when but seventeen years of age. His first assignment to duty was at the marine barracks in this city. After a short tour of duty there he accompanied the marine battalion commanded by Colonel Watson, to Mexico in 1847 and joined the force under General Scott at Puebla in August of that year. He was brevetted first lieutenant of marines for gallant conduct in the storming of Chapultepec and the capture of the city of Mexico. Following the Mexican War, he made a cruise on the U.S.S. Germantown and was at Montevideo, Uruguay, during the massacre of November 1853. He next served in this city about a year and then was attached to the Pennsylvania of the revenue marine service.

Service in Civil War At the outbreak of the Civil War he was on special duty at Fort Washington, Maryland. He commanded a battalion of 100 marines in the expedition under Rear Admiral Spaulding, which destroyed the Norfolk Navy Yard, then in the hands of the Confederates. He also had command of a small detachment of marines who took part in the Battle of Bull Run, Virginia, in July 1861.

During the remainder of the Civil War he was stationed at Marine Headquarters in this city as an adjutant and inspector of his corps. He was placed on the retired list on his own application May 1, 1894, after forty-seven years’ service, nearly seven of which were spent at sea. At that time, he held the grade of major. He was advanced to the grade of lieutenant colonel in June 1906, under the provisions of a special act of Congress on account of his services during the Civil War.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Aug 7 2020, 14:33:15 UTC