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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Joshua T. Smith

(c. 1840 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Probably an orphan before age 10, by 1850 and to at least 1860 he lived on the Nathan Amason farm in Sumter County, AL. In 1860 he was a prosperous 20 year old farmer and owned 24 slaves (Amason owned another 32). He enlisted in Livingston, AL on 15 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B (later G), 5th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed Color Corporal, date not found.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in Maryland and "Brigadier-General Rodes reports as specially deserving notice for their gallantry ... Color-Corpl. Joshua Smith."

The rest of the War

He was killed in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3; his records commingled with those of Pvt J.T. Smith, Company A. The Rodes quote above from General D H Hill's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 & 1860.

Birth

c. 1840 in AL

Death

05/03/1863; Chancellorsville, VA

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /research/CivilWarSoldier.aspx?id=187653 [AotW citation 33993]

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 33994]

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