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The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Signs of the times. (search)
Death of gallant Virginian. --Among the killed at the battle of Oak Hill, in Missouri, is Joseph Montcalm Simms, the oldest of Albert G. Simms, of Culpeper county Va., We are indebted to a distinguished gentleman attached to our Government for some facts connected with his career. When the storm that now sweeps over our lander companies, of which Capt. Gration was elected Colonel. At the late battle-near Springfield, Mo., (10th ult.,) in which this regiment did such signal service, Mr. Simms fell to rise no more. The Major of the regiment had been shot from his horse, and Mr. Simms had taken his place, when soon, in the thickest of the fight, he, toMr. Simms had taken his place, when soon, in the thickest of the fight, he, too, sealed his faith to the cause of freedom with his own blood from next his young heart. Close by him, too, his younger brother, Thomas H. Simms, was severely wounded. As these two young men were once boys together, the jewels of a household, so there, side by side, they stood, part of the future pride and hope of our young nati