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Confederate (CSV)

Colonel

Levi Beck Smith

(c. 1819 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Command Billet: Commanding Regiment

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 41 year old lawyer and planter with 26 slaves in Talbotton, GA. He was commissioned Captain, Company K, 27th Georgia Infantry on 10 September 1861 and was elected the Regiment's first Colonel as it was organized later that month (to date from 10 or 11 September). He was cited during the Seven Days battles of June 1862 by General D.H. Hill, who said

The Sixth and Twenty-seventh Georgia, of this brigade, commanded by those pure, brave, noble Christian soldiers Lieut. Col. J. M. Newton and Col. Levi B. Smith, behaved most heroically, and maintained their ground when half their number had been struck down.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg while in command of his regiment on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1819

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964  [AotW citation 19497]

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 31851]