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ANDREW JACKSON SMITH (1815-1897)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 259 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDREW See also:JACKSON See also:SMITH (1815-1897)  , See also:American soldier, was See also:born in Bucks See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 28th of See also:April 1815 and graduated at See also:West Point in 1838 . He was engaged on active service on. the See also:south-west frontier and in See also:Mexico, and afterwards in See also:Indian warfare in See also:Washington and See also:Oregon territories, becoming first See also:lieutenant in 1845, See also:captain in 1847, and See also:major in 1861 . In the latter See also:year, on the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War, he became a See also:colonel of volunteer See also:cavalry in the Federal See also:army, rising See also:early in 1862 to the See also:rank of brigadier-See also:general U.S.V., and to the See also:chief command of the cavalry in the See also:Missouri See also:department . Assigned afterwards to the Army of the See also:Tennessee, he took See also:part in the first attack on See also:Vicksburg and the See also:capture of See also:Arkansas See also:Post, and commanded a See also:division of the XIII. See also:corps in the final Vicksburg See also:campaign . Later he led a division of the XVI. corps in the Red See also:River expedition of Gen . N . P . See also:Banks, and received the See also:brevet of colonel for his services at the See also:action of Pleasant See also:Hill . In May 1864 he became lieutenant-colonel U.S.A.and major-general U.S.V., and during the greater part of the year was employed in Missouri against the Confederate' general See also:Sterling See also:Price . Thence he was summoned to join forces with G . H . See also:Thomas at See also:Nashville, then threatened by the advance of Gen .

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Hood . He See also:bore a conspicuous See also:share in the crowning victory of Nashville (q.v.), after which he commanded the XVI. corps in the final campaign in the South . Just before the See also:close of the war he was breveted brigadier-general U.S.A. for his services at the action of Tupelo, See also:Mississippi, and major-general U.S.A. for Nashville . He resigned his volunteer See also:commission in 1866 and became colonel of the 7th U.S . Cavalry . In 1869, however, he resigned in See also:order to become postmaster of St See also:Louis, where he died on the 3oth of See also:January 1897 .

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