Background
SIMS, Frederick William was born in 1828 in Clinton, Jones County, Georgia, United States, United States. Son of Frederick and Katherine Willis (Wellborn) Sims.
SIMS, Frederick William was born in 1828 in Clinton, Jones County, Georgia, United States, United States. Son of Frederick and Katherine Willis (Wellborn) Sims.
He later moved to Macon, Georgia, where his father was mayor in 1842. He was married to Catherine M. Sullivan on September 12,1850, and after her death, to Sarah Louisa Munroe on December 10, 1862, by whom he had six children. In the 1850s, Sims was the chief accountant for the Central Railroad of Georgia.
In 1856, he published the Savannah Republican along with a partner, James Roddey Sneed. Two years later he became sole proprietor of the paper. When the Civil War began, he volunteered for duty in the Confederate Army.
In late 1862, he was captured while a captain in Company B, 1st Georgia Regiment, and was later released. On June 2, 1863, he was named assistant adjutant general, serving as inspector, agent, and supervisor of railroad transportation for Confederate troops. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in January 1864.
His contributions to the war effort in the last years of the war were invaluable. It was said that he kept the Army of Northern Virginia in troops. After the war, he headed the firm of F. W. Sims and Company, cotton factors and commission merchants in Savannah.
In September 1874, he became business manager of the Savannah Daily Advertiser. Sims took his own life on May 25,1875, in San Francisco.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.