Milton Walker Sims deserves a biography--James Walker Newberry, are you interested?

Rebels in the Rockies: Confederate Irregulars in the Western Territories Paperback – July 16, 2014

by Walter Earl Pittman 

This is another McFarland book, out of Jefferson, NC. I have become aware of this publishing company from Scott Syfert's fine book on the MECKLENBURG DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE and others.

 

James Milton Newberry, can you write a biography of your ancestor, maybe with my help? There are masses of unused material and scattered comments like Pittman's on p. 216:

 

A second regiment (the first was Baird's, now recruited to full strength) was being formed under Colonel |M. W. Sims [probably Simms] and was comprised of Texans from the conscription-exempt frontier counties of West Texas, most of them veterans of the various frontier regiments that had been created during the war."

 

No, not "probably Simms." This is my cousin Milton Walker Sims, who shortly met Carlotta and Maximillian and kissed the Empress's glove when she dropped it.

 

This was the Sims to arrived at Hebert's camp in 1863 emaciated, haggard, dressed in calico window curtains.