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

J . B .

Hood . He
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bore a conspicuous 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 close of the war he was breveted brigadier-general U.S.A. for his services at the action of Tupelo,
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Mississippi, and major-general U.S.A. for Nashville . He resigned his volunteer commission in 1866 and became colonel of the 7th U.S . Cavalry . In 1869, however, he resigned in order to become postmaster of St Louis, where he died on the 3oth of
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January 1897 .

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