Samuel S. Simmons

In 1860 he was a 28 year old farmer on his parent's place at West Point in Lowndes County, MS. He enlisted at West Point as a Private in the Company which became Company L, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 12 May 1862. He and the Company joined the Battalion just before Manassas on 29 August 1862.

He was left behind sick at Frederick, MD and captured there on 12 September 1862.

He was treated at US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick to 18 September, then held at Fort Delaware. He was sent to Aiken's Landing, VA on 2 October and declared exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862. He was captured again, at Fredericksburg, VA on 5 June 1863, held at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC to 10 June, and exchanged. He was promoted to 5th Sergeant about February 1864, wounded by a gunshot on 27 October 1864, place not given, and furloughed to Whitesfield, MS from a Richmond, VA hospital on 16 November. There is no later military record.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has his birth in Wacissa, FL, and the US Census of 1860.

He married Sarah Jane "Sallie" Spears (1838-1856) in September 1854 and they had 2 children. He married again, Clara Elizabeth Israel (1843-) in October 1860.

06//13/1831 in NC

10/12/1867; Jefferson County, FL