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John Simmons and friend
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Print collections. |
| Image Number : |
PR01726 |
| Date : |
[18--] |
| Subject Heading(s) : |
Simmons, John--Portraits.
Confederate States of America. Army. Florida Infantry Regiment, 6th
Company K.
Carte de visite photographs.
Florida--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Unknown military personnel.
Florida--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| Original : |
1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 8 in. |
Additional notes
from
David J. Coles |
John Jasper Simmons, pictured here in an ambrotype with an unidentified
soldier (it is unknown which of the soldiers is Simmons), was sixteen years
old when he enlisted in Captain Angus D. McLean’s Company H of the 6th
Florida Infantry at Mount Vernon Arsenal in April 1862. Simmons’
army career would be tragically brief. He was on sick furlough shortly
after his enlistment, but was able to return to his regiment in time for
its advance into Kentucky with General Kirby Smith. John Simmons
was left sick in a Frankfort, Kentucky hospital on October 1, 1862 and
died there a few days later. |
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