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"Gid"
(c. 1843 - c. 1888)
Home State: Indiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and 3 siblings on the family farm at Linton in Greene County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Corporal in Company D, 14th Indiana Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in the hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was discharged to enroll in the regular US Army, and enlisted in Washington, DC on 29 November 1862 as a Private in Company L, 2nd United States Cavalry. He was discharged at Cold Harbor, VA as a Sergeant at the end of his original term of enlistment, on 1 June 1864.
After the War
He began receiving a US pension for disability in 1870, and his widow began collecting it in February 1888.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General1 and the Registers. Wound detail from Nelson.2 Personal details from family genealogists, and the US Census of 1860, and his Pension Card, online from fold3.
He married Cecelia Ingles (c. 1845-) in March 1880 in Louisiana.
His brother James C Smith was also in Company D. Brother John Thomas Smith (1831-1908) was Colonel of the 31st Indiana Infantry.
Birth
c. 1843; Johnson County, IN
Death
c. 1888
1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 278 [AotW citation 33584]
2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 57, p. 162 [AotW citation 33585]
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. 394 [AotW citation 33586]