. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . plank-road to repel an assault, and afterwards pro-tected the rear of the Second Corps against Hamptonscavalry in a hard fight; in reconnoissance and skirmishdown Weldon Railroad, November 7; in movement toStony Creek, where he fought and defeated the enemy,December 1, and in movement to Bellefielcl, December7-12, skirmishing with enemy continuously; in Appo-mattox campaign, March 29 to April 9, 1865 ; engagedat Dinwiddie Court-House (where he was hit in the legby a bullet which had passed through his horse); lightat Jette
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . plank-road to repel an assault, and afterwards pro-tected the rear of the Second Corps against Hamptonscavalry in a hard fight; in reconnoissance and skirmishdown Weldon Railroad, November 7; in movement toStony Creek, where he fought and defeated the enemy,December 1, and in movement to Bellefielcl, December7-12, skirmishing with enemy continuously; in Appo-mattox campaign, March 29 to April 9, 1865 ; engagedat Dinwiddie Court-House (where he was hit in the legby a bullet which had passed through his horse); lightat Jettersville; in the battles of Sailors Creek, BrieryCreek, Farmville, and at Appomattox, April 9, and inmovement against Johnstons army, April 24 and follow-ing days. Colonel Smith was appointed colonel, Twenty-eighthU. S. Infantry, July 2S, 1866, and was brevetted brigadier-and major-general Army March 2, 1867. He wastransferred to the Nineteenth Infantry in 1869, and servedwith his regiment until retired, November I, 1891. 3SS OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY ms, R). MAJOR FRANK G. SMITH. Major Frank G. Smith (Second Artillery) was bornin Pennsylvania February 16, 1840. He graduated as acivil engineer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,New York, in the Class of 1S59. He entered the regularservice as second lieutenant of the Fourth ArtilleryAugust 5, 1,SO 1, and was promoted first lieutenant thesame day. He served at Camp Duncan until December,[86i,and then with Battery I, Fourth Artillery, in thefield from January, 1862, throughout the war of theRebellion, except the last campaign, and was engaged inthe siege and capture of Corinth, Mississippi, April andMay, 1862 ; in the campaign of Buell against Bragg, end-ing in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, ( Ictober 8, [862 ;in the operations of the same army under Rosecrans,through the Murfreesborough, Tullahoma, and Chicka-mauga campaigns, to October 19, 1863 ; in the siege ofChattanooga and battle of Missionary Ridg
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