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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