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C.S. Simonds
(1831 - 1862)
Home State: Massachusetts
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 29 year old scythe maker in Fitchburg, Worcester County, MA. He enrolled in Worcester, MA on 12 July 1861 as First Lieutenant of Company B, 15th Massachusetts Infantry and was commissioned Captain on 1 August. He was captured at Ball's Bluff, VA on 21 October 1862 and was exchanged and returned to duty in March 1862.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines,1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture from a photograph contributed by Scott Hann from his collection.
He married Martha M. Sibley (1839-1913) in November 1857 and they had 2 daughters; the second, Sarah Louise, was born in 1861 but lived less than 2 years.
Birth
02/24/1831; Groton, MA
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Fitchburg, MA
1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pp. 145 - 154 [AotW citation 5628]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 6941]