The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

The Clays of Kentucky-- Part 4: Green Clay Smith


From Wikipedia.

GREEN CLAY SMITH

July 4, 1826 to June 29, 1895

Politician and soldier from Kentucky.  Elected to Kentucky statehouse before the Civil War.  Commissioned a Union officer and rose to rank of major general before he resigned to go to the U.S. Congress in 1862 as a leading member of the Unionist Party.

Served as territorial governor of Montana 1866 to 1869

Returned to Washington, D.C. and became a Baptist minister and active in the temperance movement.

--Old Secesh

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