Friday, February 28, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, January 11, 1862

HEADQUARTERS 54TH REGT. O. V. U. S. A.,
CAMP DENNISON, January 11, 1862.

My name in the service and elsewhere is unfortunate. There are four Colonels Smith in Ohio alone; one of them is Kirby Smith, a name by which I am not unfrequently known, and by the by, I notice that there is one by that name in the rebel army.

SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 178

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