Keywords: John Jasper Simmons.jpg en 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�ga�ss Company H of the 6th Florida Infantry at Mount Vernon Arsenal in April 1862 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 - State Archives of Florida Florida Memory 1862 http //floridamemory com/items/show/1658 author other versions PD-old-70-1923 Uploaded with UploadWizard Uncategorized 2015 August 31 |