![]() ![]() Simons Island, instead returned to the war, serving the youngest King son, R. Neptune, who could have chosen to remain on St. Simons Island where it was buried at Christ Church cemetery. Neptune accompanied King’s body back to St. When none of his comrades would risk the constant rifle fire to retrieve King’s body, Neptune did so. King completed the mission, but was killed before he could return to his unit. In December of 1862, at the battle of Fredericksburg, King volunteered to carry a dispatch to another section of the Confederate lines. When war broke out in 1861, Small accompanied one of the King sons, Henry Lord Page King, into service in the Confederate army as King’s manservant. Simons Island’s Retreat Plantation.īorn in 1831, Neptune was responsible for looking after the King children. Simons Island is named for Neptune Small, a faithful servant of the King family, one-time owners of St.
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