| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general.) Graduated form West Point, 1845; Mexican War veteran. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in March 1861 and was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army. Promoted to brigadier general in June 1861, major general in October 1861, lieutenant general in October 1862, and general in February 1864. Major campaigns and battles include First Manassas (wounded), the Kentucky campaign, Perryville, the Red River campaign, and the Arkansas campaign. After the war, Smith lived briefly in Cuba. He returned to the United States and became a college president and mathematics professor. Smith died in Sewanee, Tennessee, in March 1893 and is buried there. He was the last surviving full Confederate general when he died. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 5. National Historical Society, 1991.
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