2021-02 Raynors HCA Live
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Confederate Document "Morning Report of Troops Stationed on Norther Portion Morris Island Commanded by Brig. Gen. Simon's Provisional Army", 1pp. folio, Head Quarters 1st Brigade, Morris Island, April 17, 1861, and records the count of almost 1600 Confederate troops. Fine condition. James Simons (1813-79) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. The speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives when the war broke out, he was appointed by President Jefferson Davis as the first general officer of the Confederacy. As brigadier general of South Carolina Militia Fourth Infantry Brigade, he led the first attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861.
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