Smith, Andrew Jackson

Life Span
to
Full name
Andrew Jackson Smith
Place of Birth
Bucks County, PA
Burial Place
St. Louis, MO
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
Family
Samuel Smith (father) 
Education
West Point (US Military Academy)
Occupation
Military
Other
Other Occupation
Postmaster
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Union Army
US military (Post-Civil War)
Date Event
The Army of the Tennessee secures its beachhead across the Mississippi at the Battle of Port Gibson
In Mississippi, the Army of the Tennessee wins a pivotal battle at Champion Hill and moves on to Vicksburg
On the Red River, Union troops storm the formidable Fort De Russy in twenty minutes
In Alabama, the Union's capture of Spanish Fort makes the city of Mobile's fall only a matter of time
More than a hundred general officers of volunteers are mustered out of the Union Army
In Kansas, a new U.S. cavalry regiment, the Seventh, begins its formation at Fort Riley.
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