Harry Smith

Age 28, he enlisted at Westville, MS on 26 April 1861 and mustered as First Sergeant of Company B, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 29 May 1861 in Corinth, MS. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 21 February 1862 and elected Captain on 26 April 1862 at the Army reorganization.

He was wounded in the leg and captured in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was paroled on 30 September 1862 and was back with his Company by the end of 1862. He was captured at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864. He was held at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, then sent to Fort Delaware on 15 June. He took an oath of allegiance there and was released on 16 June 1865.

His service from his Compiled Confederate Military Service Records,1 online from fold3 (mixed with documents for Lt Hayes R Smith, Co. C). His Sharpsburg wound detail from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

c. 1833