Father: William Nichol
Mother: Julia Margaret Lytle
1845 - A.B. degree, University of Nashville, Nashville, TN
1849 - M.D. degree, University of Pennsylvania Medical Department, Philadelphia, PA (from: TN; preceptors: Dr. Thomas R. Jennings and Dr. William Wood Gerhard; thesis: "Distinction Between Typhus and Typhoid Fevers")
1849 - Asst. Resident Physician, Blockley Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
1850 - Practiced medicine, District 2, Davidson Co., TN
1852 - Entered U. S. Navy as an Asst. Surgeon
1852-1856 - Asst. Surgeon, U. S. Navy
10/00/1856 - Resigned from U. S. Navy
1856 - Practiced medicine, Nashville, Davidson Co., TN
00/00/1858 - Married Henrietta Cockrill (she died in 1859)
1860 - Practiced medicine, 3rd Ward, Nashville, Davidson Co., TN
10/07/1861 - Appointed Surgeon, Confederate Army
10/07/1861 - Ordered to report to 1st TN Infantry as Surgeon
06/21/1862 - Surgeon, 1st TN Infantry (Field's), Tupelo, MS
06/21/1862 - Surgeon, 1st TN Infantry (Field's), Jackson, MS
07/21/1862 - Passed Confederate Army Board of Medical Examination, Tupelo, MS
08/24/1862 - Ordered to report to Surgeon S. H. Stout [S.O. 162/6 Dept. 2 & Western Dept. - Gen. Bragg]
09/26/1862 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from July 23, 1862 [Dr. Nichol had already been "appointed" as a Surgeon, but this appointment may not have been recognized by the Confederate War Department.]
09/26/1862 - Confirmed as Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
04/00/1863 - Surgeon-in-charge of hospitals, Rome, GA
05/31/1863 - Surgeon, Rome, GA
08/15/1863 - Post Surgeon, Rome, GA
09/01/1863 - Surgeon-in-charge of hospitals, Rome, GA
12/21/1863 - "Surgeon W. L. Nichol will proceed immediately to Rome Ga and relieve Surg H. V. Miller from the operation of the order from this office dated Dec 12th 1863. He will then remove the 'Bell' Hospital with all its Materials, Attendants, etc. and as much of the Material of the 'Polk' Hospital as will exceed the wants of a hospital of 150 beds capacity to Greensboro, Ga, and open hospitals there, as early as practicable" order by Surgeon S. H. Stout, Medical Director of Hospitals, Army of Tennessee
12/23/1863 - Surgeon, Greensboro, GA
01/14/1864 - Surgeon, 1st and 27th TN Infantry consolidated), Dalton, GA
04/25/1864 - Surgeon, Greensboro, GA
04/30/1864 - Surgeon, Covington, GA
05/10/1864 - Surgeon, Covington, GA
06/00/1864 - Surgeon, Thomaston, GA
07/08/1864 - Surgeon-in-Charge, Hospital, Covington, GA
08/01/1864 - Surgeon, Covington, GA
08/00/1864 - Moved to Cuthbert, GA, after being evacuated from Covington, GA, because of a raid. Dr. Nichol observed that he was, "surrounded with difficulties. The people [of Cuthbeth] are totally insensible to the wants of the army. They are more essentially selfish than any set with whom I have been thrown. . . . If I swore at all I would say Damm this place."
09/22/1864 - Surgeon-in-charge, Hospital, Cuthbert, GA
10/06/1864 - Surgeon, Cuthbeth, GA
11/00/1864 - Surgeon, Cuthbeth, GA
12/13/1864 - Surgeon, Cuthbeth, GA
02/00/1865 - Surgeon-in-charge, Hill Hospital, Cuthbert, GA
03/08/1865 - Surgeon-in-charge, Hill Hospital, Cuthbert, GA
03/28/1865 - Ordered to set apart a portion of Hill Hospital as an Ophthalmic Ward
1864 - Married, Ella Fackler (she died in 1864)
1868 - Joined the faculty of Medical Department of the University of Nashville as Professor of Diseases of the Chest
~1870 - Married, Martha E. Johns DeBow (formerly Mrs. James Dunwoody Brownson DeBow)
1880,1886 - Practiced medicine, Nashville, Davidson Co., TN
1899 - Professor of Diseases of the Chest, Medical Department of the University of Nashville, Nashville, TN
1890,1893 - Practiced medicine, Nashville, Davidson Co., TN
- Member, Nashville Academy of Medicine, Nashville, TN
- Member, Tennessee Medical Society
- Member, First Presbyterian Church, Nashville, TN
1896 - Dean, Medical Department of the University of Nashville, Nashville, TN
12/00/1896 - Resigned, Medical Department of the University of Nashville
1898 - Retired from practicing medicine
06/23/1901 - Died at his residence, 324 North High St., Nashville, TN (cause: marasmus seniles [progressive senile dementia]; buried, Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Davidson Co., Nashville, TN)

Note: The Compiled Service Records of Surgeon William Lytle Nichol are randomly mixed with those of Asst. Surgeon W. L. Nichols under the latter's name in the General and Staff group. Asst. Surgeon W. L. Nichols served mostly in Virginia.

Note: Glenna R. Schroeder-Lein provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
05/18/2014. Unpublished database.