Simeon Sammons

A 4-term Congressman's son, in 1860 he was a prosperous 49 year old farmer in the Fonda neighborhood of Mohawk, Montgomery County, NY. He enrolled there and mustered as the Colonel of the 115th New York Infantry on 27 August 1862.

He was in command of the regiment on the Campaign, was captured with them at Harpers Ferry on 15 September 1862, and was paroled there on the 16th.

He was wounded in action at Olustee, FL on 20 February 1864 and again at Petersburg, VA on 30 July 1864. He resigned and was discharged for disability on 19 November 1864.

In 1865 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer back in Mohawk. He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in February 1874.

His service basics from the State of New York.1 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, and the New York State Census of 1865. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a copy photograph sold by the Horse Soldier, Gettysburg.

He married Barbara Grose (1815-1895) in December 1835 and they had 5 children.

His father Major Thomas Sampson Sammons (1762-1838) was a Revolutionary War and later NY State Militia officer and served 4 terms in the US House of Representatives 1803-07, 1809-13.

05/23/1811; Shawangunk, NY

03/19/1881; Mohawk, NY; burial in Sammons Cemetery, Mohawk, NY