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Federal (USV)

Captain

Samuel N. Smith

(1832 - ?)

Home State: Michigan

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Michigan Infantry

Before Antietam

From Detroit. Entered service in Company E, Seventh Infantry, at organization, as First Lieutenant, June 19, 1861, at Fort Wayne, for 3 years, age 29. Commissioned June 19, 1861. Mustered Aug. 22, 1861. Commissioned Captain April 1, 1862. Mustered April 21, 1863.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

Appointed Acting Assistant Inspector General, Third Brigade, Second Division, Second Corps, from April 25, 1863, to October, 1863. Wounded in action at Bristow Station, Va., Oct. 14, 1863. Commissioned Lieutenant Colonel July 3, 1863. Mustered June 30, 1864. Commanding regiment July and August, 1864. Discharged on account of disability Oct. 12, 1864.

References & notes

Basic information from State of Michigan1.

Birth

1832

Notes

1   State of Michigan, Office of the Adjutant General, and George H. Brown, Adjutant General; George H. Turner, Asst. AG, compiler, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 46 volumes, Kalamazoo: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1904-1915, Vol. 7, pp. 86 - 96  [AotW citation 12117]