Photograph associated with Joseph S. Smith

Civil War

Joseph S. Smith

Lieutenant Colonel and Commissary of Subsistence · U.S. Army

2d Army Corps

27 October 1864 · Hatchers Run, Virginia

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Branch
U.S. Army
Era
Civil War
Home state
Maine
Action
Hatchers Run, Virginia

The citation

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Led a part of a brigade, saved 2 pieces of artillery, captured a flag, and secured a number of prisoners.

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