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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Pulaski Smith

(1837 - 1913)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 24 year old carpenter, he enlisted at Corsicana in Navarro County as a Private in Company I, 4th Texas Infantry on 17 July 1861.

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 appointed 3rd Sergeant by the end of 1863 and was wounded on 21 February 1864, place not given. He was a prisoner at Montgomery, AL and signed a parole there on 13 May 1865.

After the War

In 1910 he was a 72 year old farmer in Lafayette in Upshur County, TX.

References & notes

His service from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave. He married Ella Elizabeth Garrett (1842-1896) and they had 5 children between 1874 and 1883.

Birth

07/18/1837; Russell County, AL

Death

05/29/1913; Updhur County, TX; burial in Lafayette Cemetery, LaFayette, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 163 - 164 [AotW citation 1912]

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 26927]

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