The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Alfred T. Smith-- Part 3: His Service

From Colonels in Blue:  Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Lieutenant, U.S. 8th Infantry May 14, 1861

Assistant Professor of Mathematics  USMA  Sept. 1862-March 18, 1865.

Captain, 8th U.S. Infantry, Sept. 19, 1863.

Colonel, 156th Illinois Infantry, April 4, 1865.

Commanded Post of Chattanooga, TN., June 1865.

Commanded 3 Brigade, 2 Separate Division, District of the Etowah, Department of  the Cumberland, June-Aug. 1865.

Acting AIG, staff of  Major General John E. Smith (his father), District of West Tennessee, Aug.-Sept. 1865.

Honorably mustered out, Sept. 20, 1865.

Bvt. Captain, US Army, July 1862 for gallant and meritorious services during the Peninsular Campaign.

Bvt. Major and Bvt. Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorius services during the war.

Battle Honors:  The Virginia Peninsular Campaign.

Education:  Graduated U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, 1860.

Was Colonel of 13th U.S. Infantry in the Spanish-American War,

Retired 16 June 1899.

--Old Secesh


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