Nolley, the son of a Methodist minister in Ashland, VA, attended R-MC after the war. he enlisted in Co. A of the 20th VA Heavy Artillery Battalion as a private on September 26, 1863 at the age of 17. He was taken prisoner at Farmville, VA on April 6, 1865 and sent to the POW camp at Point Lookout, MD, where he was released June 15, 1865 after taking the oath of allegiance.
He attended R-MC for a year after the war. He is listed as a bookkeeper in the Richmond, VA, area in the 1880 and 1910 censuses. By 1920, he was working as a cashier in Atlanta, GA. Nolley died in 1932.
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