Saturday, March 20, 2010

Death of Gen. C. F. Smith

PITTSBURG LANDING, April 26.

Major General C. F. smith died at Savannah yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock of dysentery. He was taken sick shortly after the occupation of Savannah by our forces under him, and has been suffering and sinking slowly for several weeks, though his condition was not thought dangerous until within the past week. His family have been notified, and are on their way to Savannah.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 28, 1862, p. 1

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