Dear Mr. Smith I have scant information sent to me recently by
a lady that is doing some of the same parallel research that I am pursuing concerning my ancestor Greatgrandfather Thomas
Benjamin Sims Simms Simes Symns Semmes etc. who joined the 19th
SC Infantry,Company I. from, I believe, Abbeville SC. The in-
formation I received is as follows: 19th Inf. Regt. was orga-
nized during the winter of 1861-1862. Ir moved to Mississippi, then to Kentucky where it saw action at Munfordsville. The
unit was brigaded under Generals Manigault and Sharp and from Sept. 1863, to 1864 was consolidated with the 10th Regt.
It servedwith the Army of Tennessee from Murfreesboro to Atlanta, fought with Hood in Tennessee,and was active in the
North Carolina operations. The
Regt. lost 8 killed and 72 wounded at Mufresboro,and the 10th/19th sustained 236 casualties at Chickamauga and totaled
436 men and 293 arms in December,1863. During the Atlanta Campaign, July 22-28, the 19th reported 12 killed, 60 wounded, and 25 missing, and there were 9 killed, 34 wounded and 8 missing at Ezra Church. It surrendered on April 26, 1865 with 76 men. The field officers were Colonels Agustus J. Lythgoe, W.C. Moragne, James F. Pressley, and T.S. Shaw; Lieutenant Colonel Abraham Jones; and Majors John A. Crowder, Tillman Watson, and James l. white.

Complied by Karen Ann Thompson Ledford, "These Men Wore Grey", Vol. III, Stephens County, Georiga, Pg. 69