Nash enlisted on May 17, 1861 as a private in an as yet unknown company, possibly Co. B, of the 5th VA Cavalry, a regiment that was reorganized in 1862, with Nash assigned to Company B of the 13th VA Cavalry. He was detailed in January of 1862 to the engineering department.Nash was wounded in the leg at the Battle of Seven pines on may 31, 1862. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant and adjutant on August 16, 1862, and then to captain and assistant adjutant general (AAG) on November 2, 1863. He was wounded again at Petersburg, VA on June 16, 1864. Nash was paroled in Richmond, VA April 27, 1865.
Nash attended Randolph-Macon in the early 1850s prior to his enrollment in the University of Virginia in 1853. The 1870 census lists him as a merchant in Petersburg, VA. By 1880 he had moved to Atlanta, GA, where he became a publisher's agent, primarily for school books. He died November 17, 1900 and is buried in Atlanta's Westview Cemetery.
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