Virginius Sampson Smith

Son of prosperous planter Francis Sampson Smith (1804-1867), in 1860 he was a 21 year old clerk living in the Bruce (?) House Hotel at Marion in Perry County, AL. He enlisted on 24 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 4th Alabama Infantry. He was detailed to the brigade Quartermaster on 3 February 1862 and was assigned as courier to Colonel Law on 27 August.

He was with the Colonel in Maryland, who wrote of him at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862:

The members of my staff ... and Private Smith, Fourth Alabama - as usual, performed every duty bravely and efficiently.

He was mortally wounded in action at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862 and died the next day.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. The quote above from Colonel Law's report. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and his obituary in the Richmond Daily Dispatch of 26 March 1863. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by Jeffry Burden.

03/15/1839; Powhatan County, VA

12/14/1862; Fredericksburg, VA; burial in Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, VA