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Andrew Jackson Smith (United States Army career soldier and commander)

b. 1815-04-28 d. 1897-01-30

United States Army career soldier and commander. Berks County, Pennsylvania, native. Graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1838. Member of the First U.S. Dragoons from 1838 to 1861. Veteran of the Mexican-American War. Colonel of the 1st California Cavalry in 1861. Brigadier-general of United States Volunteers from March 1862 to May 1864. Major-general of United States Volunteers from May 1864 to 1866. Commander of the Thirteenth Corps and Sixteenth Corps of the United States Army.

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Bibliography

Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 454-55. Robert S. Lanier, ed., The Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Ten: Armies and Leaders (Springfield, MA: Patriot Publishing Co, 1911), 222-24. Find A Grave, "Andrew Jackson Smith (1815-1897)," Memorial #18502, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18502 (accessed June 10, 2017).

Citation

Smith, Andrew Jackson. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204488 (November 12, 2026).

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