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Confederate Sharpshooter Major William E. Simmons - Through the War with the 16th Georgia Infantry and 3rd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters (Hardcover)
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Confederate Sharpshooter Major William E. Simmons - Through the War with the 16th Georgia Infantry and 3rd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters (Hardcover)
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In recent years there has been a renewed interest in Civil War
sharpshooters. Now there is a new perspective on the subject in the
story of Major William E. Simmons (1839-1931), with emphasis on his
experiences as an infantry officer in the Army of Northern
virginia. Three years after graduating from Emory College, Simmons
joined the first company in his home county and received his
commission. He was later promoted to Captain in the elite 3rd
Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters of Wofford's Brigade. In 1864, he
became acting commander of the brigade's sharpshooter battalion.
The book traces his family heritage and his footsteps from
childhood to Emory College, through many challenging war
encounters, his capture and imprisonment at Fort Delaware, and a
lifetime of service to his state and community that lasted until
the 1930s. A wealth of information from Simmons' journal and
personal papers includes encounters with Generals Nathan Bedford
Forrest and George Armstrong Custer. There are also accounts of his
miraculous escape from Crampton's Gap at South Mountain, his
regiment's heroic efforts at the Bloody Lane in the Battle of
Sharpsburg, the Sunken road at Fredericksburg, the peach Orchard
and Wheat Field at Gettysburg, and his sharpshooters' key role at
Cold Harbor and Wofford's flank attack at the Wilderness. To
provide more in-depth information on Simmons' sharpshooter
battalion, Byrd provides maps, letters, photographs, and a roster
of soldiers compiled from service records and twenty-five other
reference sources.
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