William Stuart Simpkins first enlisted as a private in Co A of the Hampton legion Infantry; then transferred to the artillery. He and his brother first moved to Florida postwar, then to Texas. William S. Simpkins became a promintent lawyer and then a teacher at the Law School at the University of of Texas. He wrote a number of treatesies on the law, and was so popular that it is said that the students would rise and applaude him when he arrived for class. He was a gentleman of the old school, and was known to take a nip or two in preparation for his lectures. There is a small file on him at the Manuscript Division of the Unviersity of Texas in Austin, which includes a newspaper photo, but not a reporducible one, if I recall. He was born in Edgefield, but raised in Beaufort District. The Old Edgefield District Genealogical Society in Edgefield has extensive files on the Simpkins family.