Francis
R. Nicholls was a Confederate double amputee who wouldn’t give up. During the
first battle of Winchester he lost an arm, and at Chancellorsville a Federal
shell caused him to lose a foot. Assigned to post duty for a period, the
brigadier became head of conscription in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
Returning to Louisiana and admitting that he was “only the broken remnant of
the man who marched off to fight the Yankees,” he served two terms as governor
before becoming head of the state supreme court.
