W. Gary Nichols is a retired Professor of History at The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, in Charleston where he served as a member of The Citadel faculty since 1965. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Alabama and was a Rotary International Fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria. He was selected as a Citadel Development Foundation Faculty Fellow and has served as Director of The Citadel-University of Charleston Master of Arts in History Program. Dr. Nichols lectures frequently on the life and career of General Charles P. Summerall as well