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Chattahoochee, Arsenal (US/CSA)

Confederate soldiers enlisted at Mount Vernon arsenal



This abmrotype is of John Jasper Simmons and an unidentified soldier Pictured here in an ambrotype with an unidentified soldier (it is unknown which of the soldiers is Simmons) who at 16 years of age enlisted at Mount Vernon arsenal in the 6th Florida Infantry.  While on duty with the 6th in Kentucky, he became ill and died there in a hospital in October 1862.

(Courtesy Florida State Archives, Florida Memory Project, pr01726, www.floridamemory.com)


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