MORGAN

See also:

• LEWIS, HENRY CARVILL
• LEWIS, JOHN FREDERICK (180 1876)
• LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY (1775-1818)
• LEWIS, MERIWETHER (1774-1809)
• LEWIS, SIR GEORGE CORNEWALL, BART

LEWIS

See also:

• SMITH
• SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
• SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
• SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
• SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
• SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
• SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
• SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
• SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
• SMITH, G
• SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
• SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
• SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
• SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
• SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
• SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
• SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
• SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
• SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
• SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
• SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
• SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
• MORGAN LEWIS SMITH (1822–1874)
• SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
• SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
• SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
• SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
• SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
• SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
• SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
• SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)

SMITH (1822–1874)  , American general, was born in Oswego county, New York, on the 8th of March 1822 . In 1843 he settled in Indiana, and later had some military experience in the United States army . At the outbreak of the Civil War he raised the 8th Missouri regiment, of which he was elected colonel in 1861 . He commanded a brigade at the capture of Fort Donelson, and did good service at Shiloh . In July 1862 he was made a brigadier-general U.S.V., and served under Sherman in the river expedition against Vicksburg . At the battle of Chickasaw Bayou he received a severe wound, from which he recovered only in time to join theArmyof the Tennessee before Chattanooga . He led his division iif the battles of the Chattanooga campaign, as also, in the following year, in the Atlanta campaign . At the battle of Atlanta he commanded Logan's corps . Afterwards he was placed in charge of Vicksburg . General Sherman said of M . L . Smith, " He was one of the bravest men in action I ever knew." He died at Jersey City on the 29th of December 1874 .

His

brother, GILES ALEXANDER SMITH (1829–1876), also a distinguished soldier of the Federal army, was born in Jefferson county, N.Y., on the 29th of September 1829 . At the beginning of the Civil War he joined the Missouri volunteers, 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 he was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers . He was wounded at the battle of Chattanooga . He took part in the Atlanta campaign, the " March to the Sea " and the Carolinas campaign, rising to the rank of major-general of volunteers . After the war he declined the offer of a colonelcy in the regular army, and was subsequently engaged in politics, retiring from public life in 1872 . He died at Bloomington, Ill., on the 8th of November 1876 .