Civil War Soldier
1st Sergeant, Co. E, 18th Massachusetts Infantry
The son of Edmund F. and Harriet C. Simmons.
Joseph E. Simmons was a 22 year-old Shoemaker from Duxbury, when he enlisted in that town on May 23, 1861 and was mustered into the 18th Mass. Infantry on August 24, 1861 as First Sergeant of Company E. In 1862 he was engaged with the Regiment in the Peninsula Campaign, including the siege of Yorktown, and the Second Battle of Bull Run, where he died about ten minutes after being shot in the chest by a musket ball.
Joseph had accepted a commission as a 1st Lieutenant with Co. G, 38th Massachusetts Infantry on August 14, 1862, but had not been mustered into that regiment at the time of his death.
His body was recovered from the battlefield at Manassas, VA and returned to Duxbury where he was interred at the Mayflower Cemetery. Following the war the Joseph E. Simmons Grand Army of the Republic Post 111 in Pembroke, MA was named in his honor.
1st Sergeant, Co. E, 18th Massachusetts Infantry
The son of Edmund F. and Harriet C. Simmons.
Joseph E. Simmons was a 22 year-old Shoemaker from Duxbury, when he enlisted in that town on May 23, 1861 and was mustered into the 18th Mass. Infantry on August 24, 1861 as First Sergeant of Company E. In 1862 he was engaged with the Regiment in the Peninsula Campaign, including the siege of Yorktown, and the Second Battle of Bull Run, where he died about ten minutes after being shot in the chest by a musket ball.
Joseph had accepted a commission as a 1st Lieutenant with Co. G, 38th Massachusetts Infantry on August 14, 1862, but had not been mustered into that regiment at the time of his death.
His body was recovered from the battlefield at Manassas, VA and returned to Duxbury where he was interred at the Mayflower Cemetery. Following the war the Joseph E. Simmons Grand Army of the Republic Post 111 in Pembroke, MA was named in his honor.
Civil War Soldier
1st Sergeant, Co. E, 18th Massachusetts Infantry
The son of Edmund F. and Harriet C. Simmons.
Joseph E. Simmons was a 22 year-old Shoemaker from Duxbury, when he enlisted in that town on May 23, 1861 and was mustered into the 18th Mass. Infantry on August 24, 1861 as First Sergeant of Company E. In 1862 he was engaged with the Regiment in the Peninsula Campaign, including the siege of Yorktown, and the Second Battle of Bull Run, where he died about ten minutes after being shot in the chest by a musket ball.
Joseph had accepted a commission as a 1st Lieutenant with Co. G, 38th Massachusetts Infantry on August 14, 1862, but had not been mustered into that regiment at the time of his death.
His body was recovered from the battlefield at Manassas, VA and returned to Duxbury where he was interred at the Mayflower Cemetery. Following the war the Joseph E. Simmons Grand Army of the Republic Post 111 in Pembroke, MA was named in his honor.
1st Sergeant, Co. E, 18th Massachusetts Infantry
The son of Edmund F. and Harriet C. Simmons.
Joseph E. Simmons was a 22 year-old Shoemaker from Duxbury, when he enlisted in that town on May 23, 1861 and was mustered into the 18th Mass. Infantry on August 24, 1861 as First Sergeant of Company E. In 1862 he was engaged with the Regiment in the Peninsula Campaign, including the siege of Yorktown, and the Second Battle of Bull Run, where he died about ten minutes after being shot in the chest by a musket ball.
Joseph had accepted a commission as a 1st Lieutenant with Co. G, 38th Massachusetts Infantry on August 14, 1862, but had not been mustered into that regiment at the time of his death.
His body was recovered from the battlefield at Manassas, VA and returned to Duxbury where he was interred at the Mayflower Cemetery. Following the war the Joseph E. Simmons Grand Army of the Republic Post 111 in Pembroke, MA was named in his honor.
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