SMITH, Morgan Lewis

Affiliation:  Union

Born: 1821, Mexico NY

Died: 1874, Jersey City NJ

Pre-War Profession: Teacher, enlisted in US Army (under a false name), river boatman

War Service: 1861 recruited 8th Missouri - Col., commanded 5th Bde/2nd Divn at Fort Donelson, commanded 1st Bde/3rd Divn at Shiloh, July 1862 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, commanded a division at Chickasaw Bluffs (w), after returning from sick leave commanded Dist of Vicksburg, July 1865 resigned.

Post War: US consul general in Honolulu, businessman