Hamilton Edward Smith

He was educated in Ontario, Canada and studied medicine with Dr. Jamin Strong in Cleveland, OH in 1857-58. He received his M.D. from the University of Buffalo and by 1860 was practicing medicine in Lexington, MI. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon, US Volunteers to date from 13 September 1862.

He treated wounded soldiers on the field at Antietam on 17 September 1862, probably as a volunteer brought from Washington, DC.

He was assigned as Assistant Surgeon of the 27th Michigan Infantry, whichh completed organization and mustered for Federal service on 10 April 1863. He was promoted to Surgeon on 25 November 1863 and assigned as Brigade Surgeon in November 1864. He mustered out with his regiment on 26 July 1865 at Delaney House, Washington, DC.

By 1870 he was a physician in Detroit, MI and he practiced there to his death of a heart attack at age 64 in 1904.

His service from the Record.1 His presence at Antietam from the surgical record of his patient Lt Arthur Erenburgh of Simmond's Battery. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1900, and his obituary in the Detroit Free Press of 9 October 1904. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married the widow Adelia Penelope English Ward (1846-1877) in September 1869. He married again, Frances Eugena Jewett (1852-1930) in February 1888 and they had 2 sons.

01/22/1840; Buffalo, NY

10/10/1904; Detroit, MI; burial in Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, MI