Editing Charles Carroll Simms

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| death_place   = [[Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)|Georgetown, Washington, D. C.]], U.S.
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'''Charles Carroll Simms''' (1824–1884) was a United States naval officer. 

A native of [[Virginia]], Simms became a [[United States Navy]] [[midshipman]] in 1839. He served in the U.S. Navy for more than two decades, achieving the rank of [[Lieutenant]] in 1854. He was dismissed from the service in April 1861, after his state left the [[United States]], and briefly was an officer in Virginia's Navy. Commissioned as a [[First Lieutenant#United States|First Lieutenant]] in the [[Confederate States Navy]] in June 1861, during that year he commanded the [[Steamboat|steamer]] [[CSS George Page|CSS ''George Page'']] and was assigned to the steamer [[CSS Rappahannock (Saint Nicholas)|CSS ''Rappahannock'']]. Also commanded CSS Appomattox in coastal North Carolina until it was scuttled in February 1862. As an officer of the [[ironclad]] [[CSS Virginia|CSS ''Virginia'']], he took part in her March–May 1862 actions in the vicinity of [[Hampton Roads]]. Subsequently, he served in the [[gunboat]]s [[CSS Nansemond|CSS ''Nansemond'']] on the [[James River (Virginia)|James River]], and [[CSS Selma|CSS ''Selma'']] in [[Mobile Bay]]. During the [[American Civil War]]'s final year, while assigned to the [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]] Squadron, he commanded the ironclads [[CSS Baltic|CSS ''Baltic'']] and [[CSS Nashville (1864)|CSS ''Nashville'']]. First Lieutenant Simms surrendered to Federal forces in early May 1865 and was paroled soon afterwards.

Simms was born 30 March 1824 in Virginia to John Douglas Simms and Eleanor Carroll Brent. He married Elizabeth James Nourse<ref name="Find a Grave: Elizabeth James Nourse Simms">{{cite web|title=Elizabeth James Nourse Simms|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41347517/elizabeth-james-simms|publisher=Find a Grave|access-date=30 April 2018|date=31 Aug 2009}}</ref> about 1852 and he died 18 December 1884 in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.<ref name="Colonial Settlers:Charles Carroll Simms">{{cite web|title=Colonial Settlers:Charles Carroll Simms|url=http://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I078505&tree=tree1|publisher=Colonial Settlers|access-date=30 April 2018}}</ref>  He and his wife are buried in [[Rock Creek Cemetery]] in Washington, D.C. The Simms family was one of public service.  His father, John Douglass Simms, was a Chief Clerk of the Navy Department and Acting [[United States Secretary of the Navy|Secretary of the Navy]] in 1841<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/trialandrewjohn03poorgoog|title=Trial of Andrew Johnson: President of the United States, Before the Senate of the United States, on Impeachment by the House of Representatives for High Crimes and Misdemeanors|last1=Johnson|first1=Andrew|last2=Poore|first2=Benjamin Perley|date=1868-01-01|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|language=en}}</ref> with the resignation of [[George Edmund Badger|George E. Badger]]. Col. [[Charles Simms (lawyer)|Charles Simms]], grandfather of Charles Carroll Simms, was, among other things, an officer in the [[American Revolution]] and Mayor of [[Alexandria, Virginia]].{{Portal|Biography|American Civil War}}

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''This page incorporates text from the [[public domain]] [[Naval Historical Center|U.S. Naval Historical Center]].''

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