NICHOLLS, Francis Redding Tillou
Confederate
Born: August 20 1834, Donaldsonville LA
Died: January 4 1912, nr Thibodeaux LA
Pre-War Profession: West Point 1855, resigned 1856, lawyer.
War Service: 1861 Capt. in Phoenix Guards, Lt. Col.
of 8th Louisiana, First Manassas, Jackson's Shenandoah Valley
campaign, Winchester (w), June 1862 Col., October 1862 Brig.
Gen., commanded Dist. of Lynchburg, commanded 4th Bde/
Trimble's Divn at Chancellorsville (w), unfit for field duty, in charge
of volunteer and conscript bureau in Trans Mississippi
Post War: Lawyer, governor, judge.