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J.G. Simpson
(1830 - 1864)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Command Billet: Battery Commander
Branch of Service: Artillery
Before Antietam
A 33 year old engraver in Philadelphia, PA, he enrolled on 1 August 1861 and mustered as First Lieutenant of Battery A, First Pennsylvania Light Artillery on 5 August in Harrisburg. He assumed command of the Battery when Captain Easton was killed in June 1862.
On the Campaign
He commanded his battery in Maryland.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Captain on 1 March 1863. He was dismissed from the service on 21 August 1864 and died of typhoid fever at home on 8 December 1864.
References & notes
His service from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph, probably in Pennsylvania militia uniform, shared online by HoldenMcGann family genealogists.
He married Mary Jane Oldden (later Lockwood, 1839-1880) in 1854 and they had 4 children, 2 of whom survived infancy.
Birth
06/26/1830; Philadelphia, PA
Death
12/08/1864; Philadelphia, PA; burial in Lawnview Cemetery, Rockledge, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 29395]
2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 29396]