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Charles Ferguson Smith (April 24, 1807 – April 25, 1862) was an American military officer who served in United States Army during the Mexican–American War and the Utah War; and as a Union Army major general in the American Civil War.
Feb 20, 2018 · On the night of March 12, 1862, General Charles Ferguson Smith tripped and slashed his leg as he climbed into an awaiting rowboat on the Tennessee River. The fall caused Smith to rip the flesh from his shin down to the bone.
Charles Ferguson Smith was born in 1807 in Philadelphia, the son of an Army surgeon. Graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1825, at age 18, he was commissioned in the artillery.
Overview. Charles Ferguson Smith. (1807—1862) Quick Reference. (1807–62) Union army officer, born in Pennsylvania. Smith spent the early part of his career at the U.S. Military Academy, where he rose to commandant of cadets. When the Civil ... From: Smith, Charles Ferguson in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military »
Oct 21, 2021 · General Charles Smith’s distinguished military career nearly unraveled in Paducah, Ky. — the “victim of a base conspiracy.”
Oct 1, 2015 · Mesch, a Civil War author, educator, and historian, provides a biography of Major General Charles Ferguson Smith, who worked as an instructor of tactics, adjutant to the superintendent, and commandant of cadets at the US Military Academy at West Point from 1829 to 1842 and served in the Mexican American War and the Utah Expedition ...
Charles Ferguson Smith was an American military officer who served in United States Army during the Mexican–American War and the Utah War and as a Union Army major general in the American Civil War.
