Английская Википедия:Giles Alexander Smith
Шаблон:Infobox military person Giles Alexander Smith (September 29, 1829 – November 8, 1876), was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Biography
Smith was born in Jefferson County, New York. When he was 18, he moved to southwestern Ohio, and for a decade engaged in business in Cincinnati. In the late 1850s, he moved to Bloomington, Illinois, where he was proprietor of a hotel.
At the beginning of the Civil War, he joined the 8th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, in which he became a captain. He took part in the capture of Fort Donelson, the Battle of Shiloh, and the operations against Corinth, becoming, later in 1862, colonel of a regiment which he led at Chickasaw Bayou. After the final campaign against Vicksburg, on August 4, 1863 he was appointed brigadier general of volunteers to rank from August 4, 1863.[1][2] He was wounded at the Third Battle of Chattanooga. He took part in the Atlanta Campaign, the March to the Sea and the Carolinas Campaign.Шаблон:Sfn He was appointed to the rank of major general of volunteers on November 24, 1865, the last one based on seniority for the Civil War.[3]
His brother Morgan Lewis Smith was a Union Army brigadier general of volunteers.[4]
After the war, Smith declined the offer of a colonelcy in the Regular Army.Шаблон:Sfn He was mustered out of the volunteers on February 1, 1866.[5] He was subsequently engaged in Illinois politics, retiring from public life in 1872.Шаблон:Sfn Smith was an Illinois delegate to the Republican National Convention. He moved to California in 1874 in a futile attempt to improve his health, but returned to Illinois two months before his death. He died at Bloomington, Illinois, and was buried in Bloomington Cemetery.[6]
See also
Notes
References
- Шаблон:EB1911
- Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Шаблон:ISBN.
- ↑ Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. Шаблон:ISBN. p. 728.
- ↑ President Lincoln sent the nomination of Smith's appointment to the U.S. Senate on December 31, 1863 and the Senate confirmed the appointment on April 1, 1864. Eicher, 2001, p. 728.
- ↑ President Andrew Johnson nominated Smith for the appointment on January 23, 1866 and the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment on February 23, 1866. Eicher, 2001, p. 705.
- ↑ Eicher, 2001, p. 498.
- ↑ Eicher, 2001, p. 705.
- ↑ Eicher, 2001, p. 495.
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