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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

John I. Smith

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Montgomery County as a Private in Company H, 4th Texas Infantry on 14 March 1862 and was appointed 3rd Corporal by August.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was reduced to Private by January 1864 but was promoted to Corporal again on 6 May. He was with his Company until he was (probably) wounded and sent to Howard's Grove Hospital in Richmond in October, then, on 24 December, to Augusta, GA on a 60 day furlough. He was admitted to the Way Hospital in Meridian, MD with a wound on 8 January 1865 and furloughed again, with no later military record.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Birth

c. 1839

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 161 - 162 [AotW citation 1886]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26721]

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