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Confederate (CSA)

Lieutenant

Richard Lee Simms, Jr.

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a wealthy lawyer (d. 1856), he was an attorney in Decatur and Dekalb, GA before the war. He enrolled at age 23 at Covington in Newton County, GA and was elected 2nd Lieutenant of Company A, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 1 August 1861. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 14 December.

On the Campaign

He was killed "instantly" in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His widow filed for his final pay of $222 in March 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Death detail from the Columbus, GA Weekly Sun of 30 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

He married Lucy Hyde Branch (later Pharr, 1843-1922) in June 1861 in Hillsborough County, FL and they had a son Richard Lee, III (1862-1922).

Younger brother Arthur was also in Company A. Older brother James Phillip Simms (1837-1887) served in the 53rd Georgia Infantry and was Brigadier General by the end of the war.

Birth

c. 1838 in GA

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33653]

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