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My father and I are amateur underwater archeologists. Over the past six years we have been working with the Underwater Archeology Branch from the state of North Carolina on a series of wrecks in the Dismal Swamp, specifically searching for the Confederate gunboat Appomattox. Although we have had several disappointments, last year we discovered some wreckage and have positively identified it as the Appomattox.
As I am sure you are aware of, Charles Carroll Simms was the commanding officer of this gunboat. The Appomattox was the only survivor of the Mosquito Fleet that engaged a massive Union fleet in the Pasquotank River in Elizabeth City, North Carolina in early February 1862. It attempted to escape through the Dismal Swamp Canal, but was too wide to fit through the locks and was scuttled somewhere in the Dismal Swamp. Unfortunately, the only supposedly contemporary accounts of the sinking of the Appomattox was written over twenty years after the Civil War ended, by a man who was not there when the Appomattox was scuttled.
We are specifically interested in any wartime journals, family history, oral history, or any other source of information that you may have regarding Charles Carroll Simms’ service as commanding officer aboard the Appomattox. We are also interested in Simms’ personal life after the war ended. We have been able to track him and his influential family prior to the Civil War, but have been unable to turn up anything post-war.
I understand this is a lot of information to ask for, so if you would rather send me an email with your phone number, and an appropriate time to call, I will gladly call you to discuss Charles Carroll Simms.
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