From Find-A-Grave.
DR. EDWARD DOMINICUS KITTOE
BIRTH: 23 June 1814, Kent, England
DEATH: 25 September 1887 (aged 73)
BURIAL: Greenwood Cemetery, Galena, Illinois.
He was the father of Maria Fiester Kittoe who married Alfred Smith, the son of John E. Smith.
--Old Secesh
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
CAPT. ALFRED THEOPHILUS SMITH
Civil War Union officer. An 1860 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, he served during the war as a captain in then 8th United States Regular Infantry before being commissioned colonel and commander of the 156th Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
He ended the war with brevets to Major and Lieutenant Colonel in the Regular Service.
After the war, he served as Colonel of the 13th United States Infantry and was promoted to Major General on the retired list.
He died in Buffalo, New York, and was cremated there. His family erected a cenotaph for him in their family plot in Galena.
--Old Secesh
I have been writing about Galena, Illinois, General John E. Smith earlier this month. He had a son who was also a Union officer and as a cenotaph at the same cemetery as his father.
From Find-A-Grave.
CAPT. ALFRED THEOPHILUS SMITH
BIRTH: 29 May 1838, St. Louis, Missouri
DEATH: 23 May 1905, Buffalo, New York
BURIAL: Cremated there. Cenotaph at Greenwood Cemetery, Galena, Illinois.
Alfred Smith was the son of John E. Smith.
In 1862, he married Maria Fiester Kittoe (1841- 1878). She was the daughter of Union surgeon Dr. Edward Dominicus Kittoe of Galena, Illinois.
--Old Secesh
