Nottingham enlisted as a private in Co. B of the 19th VA Battalion Heavy Artillery on September 18, 1862. He had been promoted to sergeant sometime before April 1864. He was captured on May 6, 1865 at Burke's Farm near Farmville, VA and sent to the POW camp at Point Lookout, MD. He remained there until he took the oath of allegiance on June 15, 1865.
He returned home to Northampton County on Virginia's Eastern Shore after the war. Nottingham died on April 7, 1866 and is buried in Lebanon Cemetery in Northampton County, VA
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