Reiterating his reasons for resigning his command, in a 7-page letter, signed by Simons, Charleston, July 15, 1861, three months after the fall of the Charleston Harbor Fort in the opening salvos of the Civil War, to S.C. Governor F.W. Pickens, a manuscript draft copy with extensive corrections, deletions, and additions.
4to. 7 pages, approximately 1200 words in a completely legible hand, on lined stationery, with the embossed stamp of Evans and Cogswell, Charleston. Docketed on the verso of the final leaf "July 15 1861 / James Simons / to / Governor Pickens / Reply to Letter / of Gov. P...... More
