. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . - came back to me under a heavy fire. AsGeneral Smith rode at the head of his men. 1 thought Ihad never seen more handsome conduct under fire. Hisregiment was the advance guard in the occupation ofCorinth ; he commanded his brigade on the wounding ofGeneral M. L. Smith at Chickasaw Bluffs, and led it againat Arkansas Post and in the various operations and bat-tles preliminary to the siege of Vicksburg, until after thebloody assaults of the 19th and 22d May, 1863. Pendinghis promotion, which was earnestly asked in a memor
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . - came back to me under a heavy fire. AsGeneral Smith rode at the head of his men. 1 thought Ihad never seen more handsome conduct under fire. Hisregiment was the advance guard in the occupation ofCorinth ; he commanded his brigade on the wounding ofGeneral M. L. Smith at Chickasaw Bluffs, and led it againat Arkansas Post and in the various operations and bat-tles preliminary to the siege of Vicksburg, until after thebloody assaults of the 19th and 22d May, 1863. Pendinghis promotion, which was earnestly asked in a memorialsigned by every officer under his command and officiallyurged by Generals Grant and Sherman, he served on thestaff of the former and performed important service whilebearing to General Banks intelligence from communicated news of the surrender of that city,whereupon Port Hudson capitulated. After some weeksof staff duty witli General Grant, he was finally accordedhis hard-won rank of brigadier-general August 11, Being assigned to the division of General McPherson, heshared in its various campaigns until March 7, 1864,when, in command of a division of the Army of theTennessee, he took part in the Red River expedition,where he protected the fleet of Admiral Porter in anarduous and severely-contested series of fights duringhis retreat to Alexandria,—a retreat made necessary bythe disaster to Bankss army at Sabine Cross-Roads. Theexposure of this campaign ruined his health. He wasgranted leave of absence until January, 1865, when he-was assigned to command of the military district ofSouth Alabama, and later to the post and district ofMobile. His commission as brevet major-general was datedas of March 13, 1865, and he was honorably musteredout of the service January 15, 1866. Such is a briefresume of services which, told in detail, were most bril-liant and won the encomiums of all his commandinggenerals, and the confidence of his officers and the w
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