... Dr. Nicholas C. Knox, fourth son of Absalom Knox, M. D., married Henrietta Craigan. He enlisted in the Seventeenth Mississippi Regiment, commanded by Col. W. S. Featherstone, McLaw's Division. He took part in all the great battles in the Army of Virginia in which his command was engaged. He lost his right arm on the second day of the battle of Grettysburg ; was captured and confined as a prisoner on ___ Island, off the city of New York, for several months before being parolled and went into the Confederate lines. He was never at home after his enlistment until he was discharged. He returned to Mississippi; taught school ; read medicine, getting a diploma from a medical college at Nashville, Tenn. He has represented his county in the Legislature; is now a practitioner of medicine in Reynolds, Miss.
He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
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