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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
bor, Gaines' Mill, Swift Creek, and Walthall Junction. In his report of the battle of Secessionville, June 16, 1862, Col. Charles H. Simonton called particular attention to the gallantry of Private Simons, who after being wounded in three places, with his clothing riddled, continued to fire upon the enemy until he was taken from the field. Two of the balls which struck him on this occasion passed through his body and he was disabled for four months in consequence. At Battery Wagner, September 6, 1863, again he was disabled by the concussion of a shell. In April, 1865, he was captured in hospital at Cheraw, and soon afterward paroled. In the fall of 1865 Mr. Simons began the study of medicine at Charleston, and in March, 1867, he was graduated at the medical college of the State of South Carolina. He was interne at the city hospital until 1869, and since then has been engaged in the general practice of his profession. He is a member of various medical societies, and has served a