Algernon Smith
Algernon Emory Smith | |
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1st Lieutenant | |
| Unit | 7th U.S. Cavalry |
| Battles/wars | American Civil War
Indian Wars
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Algernon Emory Smith (September 17, 1842 – June 25, 1876) was an officer in the
Smith was born in the state of
After the war, in 1867, Smith joined the 7th U.S. Cavalry under George Armstrong Custer. He soon became friends with Custer, and was part of the so-called "Custer Clan" or "Custer Gang" of close-knit friends and relatives of the general. Custer called him "Fresh" Smith, the opposite of "Salty" Smith. He married Nettie B. Bowen on October 10, 1867, at her home in Newport, New York.
Smith served in the 1868
Smith's body was not found among his men, but instead was discovered with Custer in the small knot of dead troops on "Last Stand Hill." Smith was given a hasty burial on the battlefield. He was re-interred in 1877 in the
His widow died in 1903.
References
- ISBN 9781466851979.
- Bibliography
- Connell, Evan S. (1984). Son of the Morning Star. Macmillan, 1997. ISBN 9780865471603.
- Panzeri, Panzeri Jr; Panzeri, Panzeri (1999). Little Big Horn 1876: Custer's Last Stand. Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 9781855324589.
- Utley, Robert Marshall (1988). Custer: Cavalier in Buckskin. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806133478.
- Cox, Kurt Hamilton (2001). Custer and His Commands: From West Point to Little Bighorn. Chelsea House Publishers. ISBN 9780791066683.
- Carroll, John M. (1993). The Custer Autograph Album. Creative Pub. ISBN 9780932702975.
- Sarf, Wayne Michael (1993). The Little Bighorn Campaign: March-September 1876. Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780938289210.
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