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William E. Simms (born William Elliott Simms; January 2, 1822 – June 25, 1898) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. He also served as a commissioner for the Confederate government of Kentucky and in several posts in the Confederate States government during the American Civil War.
13 de abr. de 2024 · Notable Works: “The Sunshine Boys”. William Gilmore Simms (born April 17, 1806, Charleston, S.C., U.S.—died June 11, 1870, Charleston) was an outstanding Southern novelist. Motherless at two, Simms was reared by his grandmother while his father fought in the Creek wars and under Jackson at New Orleans in 1814.
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1 de ago. de 2016 · 4 minutes to read. Poet, historian, novelist, editor. Simms was born on April 17, 1806, in Charleston, South Carolina, the son of the Irish immigrant William Gilmore Simms and Harriet Ann Singleton. His mother died when Simms was an infant. His distraught father moved west, leaving his son to be reared by a grandmother who told him ...
William E. Simms was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. He also served as a commissioner for the Confederate government of Kentucky and in several posts in the Confederate States government during the American Civil War.
32 Simms to Paul Hamilton Hayne, January 2, 1870, in The Letters of William Gilmore Simms, vol. 5, 290. 33 William Gilmore Simms, "Guizot's Democracy in France," Southern Quarterly Review 15, no. 29 (1849): 122. 34 Simms to John Pendleton Kennedy, April 5, 1852, in The Letters of William Gilmore Simms, vol. 3, 174.
21 de may. de 2018 · Encyclopedia of World Biography. William Gilmore Simms >American author William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), the dominant literary >personality of the antebellum South, is chiefly remembered for his novels on >subjects derived from American history. William Gilmore Simms was born in Charleston, S.C.
Simms was the most prolific southern writer of the antebellum period. This biography tells the story of Brigadier General Francis Marion, nicknamed the Swamp Fox, an American soldier in the Revolutionary War. William Gilmore Simms, “The Edge of the Swamp” (c. 1853), courtesy of Coastal Carolina University.
