John Nichols, Confederate bushwhacker, became the first in Missouri executed by military tribunal, his defiance ending in October 1863. John Nichols, a notorious Confederate bushwhacker, met his fate on October 30, 1863, in Jefferson City, Missouri. He became the first bushwhacker in the state to be executed under the authority of a military tribunal during the Civil War. Nichols’s activities, which included raids and acts of violence against Union forces and sympathizers, had earned him both fe