Ascension County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Nicholls, Francis Redding Tillou - 1834 - 1912
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Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls

BIOGRAPHY 

Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls was born on August 20, 1834, in 
Donaldsonville, Louisiana. He graduated from West Point in 1855, and served 
for one year. He resigned his commission and went to the University of 
Louisiana to study law. 

Nicholls practiced law in Napoleonville until the Civil War. After joining 
the Confederate forces in 1861, he took part in the First Battle of Bull 
Run, then in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign. In May of 1862, he was wounded 
at Winchester, and had to have his left arm amputated. On October 14, 1862, 
he was promoted to brigadier general. Commanding the District of Lynchburg 
until 1863, he later led a brigade in the Chancellorsville Campaign. During 
that campaign, his left foot was ripped off by a shell, and he was unable to 
return to combat service. Nicholls was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi 
Department to direct the Volunteer and Conscript Bureau until the end of the 
war. After the Civil War ended, he went back to practicing law. He ran for 
governor in 1876, and refused to accept a defeat by his republican opponent. 
The state had two administrations until the federal government recognized 
Nicholls' administration as the legitimate one. He was reelected in 1888, 
then appointed to the Louisiana Supreme Court in 1892. Nicholls died on his 
plantation near Thibodeaux, Louisiana, on January 4, 1912. 


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