John M. Simonton was an officer in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War[1] and a state senator in Mississippi.

[3] During the Civil War, Simonton was Colonel of the 1st Mississippi Infantry Regiment.

After being exchanged, during the siege of Port Hudson in 1863, Simonton was reassigned to command a consolidated Alabama regiment, later resigning his commission for health reasons.

In 1864 he became a Colonel in the Mississippi State Troops.

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