John M. Smith

He enlisted as Private in Company L, First Texas Infantry, date not given.

He was severely wounded in the chest in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was on furlough in Texas until 1 February 1863. While there he was commissioned First Lieutenant in [Captain Sydney T.] Fontaine's Light Battery (7th Battalion, Co. A, Texas Light Artillery).

Service information from Davis1 and Simpson.2 Sharpsburg wound detail from a 22 September casualty list by Lt. Col. Work published in the Galveston News of 1 November 1862.