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 by our forces under him, and has been suffering and sinking slowly for some 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 Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 4