Soldier:  Henry Jackson Smith

Regiment:         96^th. OVI                       

Company:         D

Age:       21                   

Date Entering Service:  8/9/1862

Period of Service:  3 years

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):

Transferred to the 22nd Regiment of the Veteran Reserve Corps on 9/1/1863. Mustered out as Corporal at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio on 7/3/1865

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi                             12/28 to 29/1862

Battle of Arkansas Post, Arkansas                                                1/11/1863

Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi                                       5/18 to 7/4/1863

Battle of Jackson, Mississippi                                                      7/9 to 16/1863

Other interesting information discovered:

Henry Jackson Smith was born in Union County, Pennsylvania on 3/26/1841. He married Francina Smith on 3/26/1868 in Morrow County, Ohio, seven children were born of this union.  Henry was a farmer while living in the Cardington, Ohio area. Sometime after 1870 he moved his family to Kansas where he continued farming. He was a member of the Custard Post #39 of the G.A.R. and was a police/judge at the time of his death in 1920. He collected an invalid’s pension on 4/24/1890.

Date of Death:  4/10/1920                     

Place of burial:  Vienna Cemetery, Pottawatomie County, Kansas

Adopted By:                                                      Researcher: Velda L Montgomery