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G.S. Smith
Home State: Pennsylvania
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He enlisted and mustered into service in Company A, 106th Pennsylvania Infantry on 9 December 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged on 20 October 1862 for wounds received at Antietam.
References & notes
Basic information from Bates,1 who has him as George S. Smithe. His picture, in a Lieutenant's uniform with 2nd Army Corps trefoil badge, is from Ward.2
It is likely he is the same George S. Smith who enlisted as Private in Company A, 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry on 12 July 1864, was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 8 December 1864, and mustered out on 24 August 1865.
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 10865]
2 Ward, Joseph R. C., History of the One-Hundred and Sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865 (2nd Ed.), Philadelphia: Grant, Faires & Rogers, 1906, pg. 81 [AotW citation 21544]