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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sherman , William Tecumseh 1820 -1829 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smith , Andrew Jackson 1815 -1897 (search)
Smith, Andrew Jackson 1815-1897
Military officer; born in Bucks county, Pa., April 28, 1815; graduated at West Point in 1838; entered the dragoons; served in the war against Mexico and against the Indians in Oregon (1855-60); and when the Civil War broke out he was promoted major of cavalry.
He was chief of cavalry in the Department of the Missouri in the spring of 1862, and in the Department of the Mississippi from March to July.
He was one of the most active and useful officers in the Southwest, commanding divisions in Missouri and Arkansas, in the Vicksburg and Red River campaigns, and afterwards (1864) in driving Price out of Missouri, and assisting Thomas against Hood at Nashville.
He was in the Mobile campaign, early in 1865.
For his services during the war he was brevetted major-general and commissioned colonel of the 7th United
Andrew Jackson Smith. States Cavalry.
He resigned in May, 1869, and died in St. Louis, Mo., in 1897.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stanton , Edwin McMasters 1814 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steedman , James Barrett 1818 -1883 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Webster , Joseph Dana 1811 -1876 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), William and Mary , Fort (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilson , James Harrison (search)