Hello Hugh - Thanks for the response. We have communicated before regarding my g-g-g uncle, Joseph Bryant, 51st Ala. Partisan Rangers, who also died at Fort Delaware. As to my Simmons line, we can trace back to John Simmons, who was born about 1760, probably in North Carolina. At various times he lived in Montgomery County and Franklin County, NC. He served in the Revolutionary War in the 10th North Carolina Regiment, Continental Line. His son, James Simmons, is responsible for the family ending up in Mississippi, by way of Henry County, Tennessee. He served in the War of 1812, in the 7th Regiment, North Carolina Militia Volunteers. He had five sons. Garrett was a plantation overseer who did not serve; William C "Billy" may not have served as we can find no records of him doing so; Dr. Caswell Simmons served, not as a surgeon but as a private in Co. G, 17th Mississippi. He was captured after being sent home on disability, and spent some time in prison at Alton, Illinois, until his exchange. My g-g grandfather, Hardeman Carroll, as mentioned, was in Co. K, 5th Mississippi Cavalry, and survived to live to the age of 74. His younger brother, James Newton "Newt" Simmons, first served in McNalley's Arkansas Artillery Battery, until the surrender at Vicksburg, but then soon after joined Hardeman in the 5th Cavalry. He was captured at Nashville in Dec. 1864, and ultimately sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, where he died two months later of pneumonia. He is buried in the Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery in a marked grave - another Mississippian "A Long Way From Home".

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