Army scenes on the Chickahominy

Army scenes on the Chickahominy
Harper''s pictorial history of the Civil War. (Chicago : Star Publishing Co. 1866)

Monday, March 18, 2013

Battle of Eltham After Action Reports- Part Six

And now the Confederate reports of the battle.*














General G W Smith
Gustavus Woodson Smith was born in Kentucky in 1821. A West Pointer and Mexican War veteran, Smith served later in 1862 as Confederate Secretary of War . . . for a week.



 * Excuse the crooked copies, the slanting is in the originals.

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