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Federal (USV)

Private

Samuel Smith

(1842 - 1880)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

From Byron in Fond du Lac County, WI, he enlisted on 26 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was "severely" wounded by a gunshot to his right leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Smoketown field hospital near the battlefield then admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 24 October. He was sent to Camp A, date not given, transferred to Baltimore on 10 March 1863, and was discharged for disability on 7 May 1863.

After the War

By 1870 he was a machinist in Fond du Lac, WI and in 1880 he was a city police officer there.

References & notes

Service basics from Bryant.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 Nelson,3 and a letter Lt. Hinkley wrote Oscar Gee on 21 September 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Jane M Leeman (1846-1928) in May 1869 and they had a daughter May Jennie (later Spear, 1877-1827).

Birth

07/1842; London, ENGLAND

Death

1880; Fond du Lac, , WI; burial in Rienzi Cemetery, Fond du Lac, WI

Notes

1 Bryant, Edwin Eustace, History of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865, Madison: Arthur H Clark Co. for the Veteran Association of the Regiment, 1891, pp. 419 - 421 [AotW citation 15225]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #218 [AotW citation 34319]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 393 [AotW citation 34320]

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