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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John A. Smith

(1835 - 1864)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Robertson County as a Private in Company C, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 July 1861. He was sick in hospitals for most of the Summer of 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was sick in hospitals from October 1862 to February 1863, found disabled by "obstinate neuralgia - facial" by a medical board on 20 February, and furloughed to at least May. He was wounded by a gunshot to the thigh and captured at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and wounded again, mortally, in the neck at Chickamauga, GA on 19 September. He was treated in a hospital in Thomaston, GA but died there on 17 June 1864.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

08/11/1835

Death

06/17/1864; Thomaston, GA; burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Thomaston, GA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 152-153 [AotW citation 1719]

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 26815]

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