Name: Neil Smith_s Virginia-Missouri 12-14-19

Updated: 12-15-2019 04:12:05.


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Sources
1. Title:   Iowa In War Times
Page:   138-140
Source:   S-151648151
Author:   Byers, S. H. M.
Publication:   W. D. Condit & Co., Des Moines, Iowa, 1888
2. Title:   U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Source:   S-151079962
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
3. Title:   1860 Monroe Co, IA Federal Census, Record Type: U. S. Census, Location: Monroe County, Iowa
Page:   409, Jackson Twp, dwelling 1325 family 1245, Elizabeth Smith
Source:   S-151648654
Publication:   1860
4. Title:   Monroe Co IA Cemeteries, Jackson Township
Page:   87, a monument in Evans Cemetery to the Civil War dead of Monroe County - " W. P. Smith died at Little Rock, AR. Walter Smith (age 24) resident of Osprey, Co B, 6th Iowa Infantry, killed Shiloh"
Source:   S-151648150
Author:   Compiler: Iowa Genealogical Society
5. Title:   A History of The Sixth Iowa Infantry
Page:   98, Company E [casulties]; Killed: First-Sergeant David J. Hays; privates - George A. Brown, William B. Crawford, John R. (L.?) Harrison, Thomas McKissick, James B. Duncan, Oliver P. Evans, William Swayney, Walter Smith (?), William H. Waugh, William H. Wi
Source:   S-151648148
Author:   Wright, Henry H.
Publication:   The State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1923
6. Title:   Civil War Unit Histories, Part Four Iowa
Page:   microfiche IA-115, 6th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, "Co. C, Walter Smith, age 24, residence: Osprey, nativity: Ohio. Enlisted July 4, 1861. Mustered July 17, 1861. Killed in action April 6, 1862, Shiloh, Tenn"
Source:   S-151648656
Author:   Compiler: U. S. Government
7. Title:   A History of The Sixth Iowa Infantry
Page:   102
Source:   S-151648148
Author:   Wright, Henry H.
Publication:   The State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1923
8. Title:   Monroe Co IA Cemeteries, Jackson Township
Page:   87, Monument to Civil War Dead in Evans Cemetery, Walter Smith, age 24 from Osprey. Co B, 6th IA Vol. Infantry. Died at Shiloh
Source:   S-151648150
Author:   Compiler: Iowa Genealogical Society

Notes
a. Note:   Find A Grave Pvt Walter Smith-Co C 6th Iowa Infantry
 From Civil War Military Records:
 Walter Smith
 age 24 of Osprey,Iowa
 nativity Ohio
 enlisted Jul 4 1861
 Killed in action Apr 6 1862 Battle of Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing)
 No burial site listed. Assume an unknown in Shiloh Nat. Cemetery.
 ______
 "The first regiment that landed from the boats at Shiloh, was the Sixth Iowa. It was put in McDowell's brigade, far out to the extreme right, on the Purdy road. No troops were farther forward. Two companies of the Sixth, under Capt. M. M. Walder, afterward Lieutenant governor of Iowa, were still farther advanced, guarding the bridge of the Purdy road over Owl Creek."
  pg 140
 "All that night [6 Apr 1862] the army lay in bivouac under a fearful rainstorm, with the federal gunboats furnishing thunder. Monday morning late found the Sixth Iowa at the siege guns, but toward noon it was led to the front - first by Col. Oglesby, and then by Col. James A. Garfield, afterward President of the United States. It passed the Shiloh Church, passed the cavalry, and once, with Garfield directing it, chased a battery that had unlimbered at its front. That battery fired against the Sixth Iowa the last rebel shot at Shiloh"
 A tintype picture identified as "Walt Smith I" in his Union infantry uniform is in the possession of Randy Smith of Monterrey, CA in 2000.
  Ironic bit of history. Walter's great nephew, Walter Alva Smith, married Ada Elizabeth Rogers in Sullivan County, Missouri. Ada's great uncle, John Rogers, Jr. was in the 6th Iowa Infantry unit with Walter Smith (probably unknown to each other). Walter Smith died at the Battle of Shiloh. John Rogers died of wounds in Altoona, Georgia near the end of the Civil War.
 

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