Oliver John Semmes Explained

Oliver John Semmes
Birth Date:	August 29, 1839
Death Date:	January 19, 1918 (aged 78)
Birth Place:	Portsmouth, Virginia, US
Death Place:	Mobile, Alabama, US
Allegiance:	Confederate States
Branch:	Confederate States Army
Branch Label:	Branch
Rank:	Major
Commands:	1st Louisiana Regular Battery
Battles:	American Civil War Red River campaign
Battles Label:	Battles

Oliver John Semmes (August 29, 1839 – January 19, 1918), second son of Confederate States Navy Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes, was an officer in the Confederate States Army, serving throughout the American Civil War, notably in the Louisiana Red River campaign of 1864, and rising to the rank of major.^[1] After the war he became a judge.^[2]

Sources

• Newman, Harry Wright (1956). The Maryland Semmes and Kindred Families: A Genealogical History of Marmaduke Semme(s), Gent., and His Descendants, Including the Allied Families of Greene, Simpson, Boarman, Matthews, Thompson, Middleton, and Neale. The Maryland Historical Society. Baltimore, MA: J. F. Hurst. pp. 92–93.

Further reading

• Finlay, Armante (August 1925). "Mrs. Electra Semmes Colston". Confederate Veteran, 33(8). pp. 312–313.
• Weinert, Richard P., Jr. (1991). The Confederate Regular Army. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Company, Inc. pp. 51, 54–55.
• Winters, John David (1991). The Civil War in Louisiana. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press. p. 224.
• "A Sword of Admiral Raphael Semmes". Confederate Veteran, 11(9). September 1903. p. 405.
• "Visit of the President to the South". Confederate Veteran, 13(11). November 1905. p. 490.
• "Judge Semmes Dies in Mobile". The Selma Journal. January 20, 1918. p. 3.
• "Judge Semmes Dead". The Osceola Times. January 25, 1918. p. 1.
• "The Son of Semmes". Camden Post-Telegram. January 26, 1918. p. 6.

Notes and References

1. Newman 1956, pp. 92–93.
2. Newman 1956, p. 93.