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General Officers GENERAL OFFICERS. WILLIAM FARRAR SMITH, considered one of the best in the entire army. He commanded the division during the Peninsula, Anlietam Major-General United Stales Volunteers. and Second Bull Run campaigns, and until the re-organization of the army under Commissioned Colonel Third Regiment Vermont Infantry Burnside. when he was assigned to the command of the Sixth Volunteers April 27, 1861; mustered into United States service Corps, with which he participated in the battle of Fredericks- July 16, 1861; appointed Brigadier-General United States Vol- burg. At the second re-organization, under General Hooker, he unteers August 13, 1861 ; appointed Major-General United was relieved from duty with the Army of the Potomac, and States Volunteers July 1862; resigned March 21, 1867. 4, ordered to his home. General Smith graduated with high honor from the United At the opening of the Gettysburg campaign he volunteered States Military Academy in 1845, and was appointed a lieuten- for duty under General Couch, and served with the militia of ant of topographical engineers. He received many brevets in Pennsylvania and New York; the troops under his command the regular service for distinguished gallantry and meritorious being engaged at Carlisle, Pa., and Hagerstown, Md. In services, the record of which may be found in the list of Ver- September. 1863, he was ordered to the Army of the Cumber- monters serving in the regular army. land, then at Chattanooga, and was assigned to duty as its chief For several years after his graduation, he was engaged in engineer, in which capacity he planned and carried out the military surveys of the Mexican boundary, and in locating a attack at Brown's Ferry, on the Tennessee River, by which the ship canal across the State of Florida. In September, 1855, he river and '-short road"' was gained, and the army saved from des- appointed assistant was professor of mathematics at the Military truction. Academy, from which position he was relieved in June, 1856. In April, 1864, General Smith was assigned to the Eighteenth on account of ill health, and assigned to duty in the Engineer Corps, and participated in the campaign on the south side of Department of the Light House establishment. At the breaking the James River. He was subsequently sent with his corps to re- out of the war he was on duty in Washington as Engineer Secre- inforce the army of the Potomac, and participated in the en- tary of the Light House Board. In the spring of 1S61 he was gagements of June 1st and 3d, at Cold Harbor. Returning to ordered to New York, and employed for a short time in muster- the south side of the James, on the 15th of June they assaulted ing volunteers. He was then ordered to Fortress Monroe, the lines before Petersburg, carrying the enemy's outer work where he served under Gen. B. F. Butler. and capturing sixteen guns and several hundred prisoners. Soon after the attack on Fort Sumter General Smith, then a On the 3d of July General Smith was placed in command of captain, informed Governor Fairbanks of his willingness to the Army of the James. A few days later he obtained leave of accept the command of a regiment from his native State, and absence on account of ill health, and on the 19th was relieved after repeated refusals, the consent of the War Department was from duty in the field. He was subsequently sent to New Or- at last obtained by the assistance of General Scott, who took a leans by President Lincoln, to examine into the administration particular interest in the Vermont troops, and particularly re- of affairs in the Department of the Gulf. On his return north quested that Captain Smith be detailed to command the Third he resigned his commission in the volunteers, and on March 21, Vermont, retaining at the same time his commission in the reg- 1867, tendered his resignation as Major of Engineers in the reg- ular army. His commission, which was dated back to April 27, gular army, having been in active service for twenty-two years. was received in the latter part of July, and he at once proceeded to Washington and took command of his regiment. He was LEWIS ADDISON GRANT, soon appointed Brigadier-General, and persuaded General Mc- Brevet Clellan, with whom he was well acquainted, to have the Ver- Major-General U. S. Volunteers. mont troops brigaded together and the command given to him. Lewis A. Grant was mustered into the service of the United By this arrangement the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and States, September 16, 1861. at St. Albans. Vermont, as Major regiments were formed into a brigade, the first in the with the Sixth army Field and Staff of Fifth Vermont Infantry Volunteers, to composed exclusively of troops from a single State, which made serve for three years; was mustered in as Lieutenant-Colonel, itself reputation second nooe-in the whole for a to history of the same regiment to date September 25, 1861; as Colonel, same war. General Smith having been assigned to the command of a regiment, to date September i 6, 1862; and was honorably dis- division, the brigade was given to Brigadier-General \V. T. H. charged as Colonel to date May 20, 1864, to enable him to Brooks, another distinguished soldier of Vermont lineage, his accept an appointment as Brigadier-General of Volunteers. father having been a native of Montpelier. He was appointed Brigadier-General U. S. Volunteers, April In the organization of the Army of the Potomac, in March, 27, 1864; accepted appointment May 21, 1864; was commission- General Smith's Division, which included the 1862, "Vermont ed Brevet Major-General U. S. Volunteers, to date from October Brigade," became the Second Division, Fourth Corps, and was 19, 1864, "for gallant and meritorious services in the campaign 747 743 GENERAL OFFICERS. 1 before Richmond, Virginia, and in the Shenandoah Valley;' Army, were basely surrendered. Upon being paroled, Colonel and was honorably discharged the service August 24, 1865. Stannard took his command to Chicago, 111., and was placed in Under the provisions of the act of Congress approved June3,iSS4, charge of several regiments at Camp Tyler, and later at Camp and the acts amendatory thereof, he is considered by the War Douglass. He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General Department as commissioned to the grade of Major, Fifth Ver- for bravery and distinguished valor at Harper's Ferry, and mont Volunteers, to take effect from September 7, 1S61, to fill assigned to the command of the Second Vermont Brigade, then an original vacancy. on duty near Fairfax Court House, Va. He commanded the Second Brigade, Second Division, Sixth In the Gettysburg campaign, Gen. Stannard's brigade (com- the 13th, 14th, 15th 16th Army Corps, from February 2 1 , 1863, to December 29, 1863, posed of 12th, and Vermont Volun- from February 2, 1864, to September2g, 1864, and from October teers,) was the Third Brigade, Third Division, First Army 8, 1864, to December 2, 1864; the Second Division, Sixth Corps. On the afternoon of July 3, 1863, Gen. Stannard dis- Corps, from December 2, 1864, to February n, 1865; the tinguished himself and his brigade by an attack upon Pickett's Second Brigade, same Division, from February 11, 1865, to flank, at which time he was severely wounded. Upon the February 20, 1865, and from Mch. 7, 1865, to June 28, 1865. muster out of this brigade, he was ordered to command of de- During his service with the Fifth Vermont Infantry Volun- fences in New York harbor, which duty he performed until as- teers, that regiment took part in the following battles: York- signed to a brigade in the Tenth Corps in the spring of 1864. town, Williamsburg, Goldings's Farm, Savage's Station, White Later he was transferred to the command of the First Brigade, Oak Swamp, Crampton's Gap, Antietam and Fredericksburg. Second Division, Eighteenth Army Corps, Gen. "Baldy" Smith Following is a list of battles in which he participated as a commanding, and was present with it at Cold Harbor, where he Brigade or Division Commander: Fredericksburg and Salem was wounded. On the 14th of June, he led the advance of the Heights, Gettysburg, Fairfield, Rappahannock Station. Mine Eighteenth Army Corps on Petersburg, with his brigade. He Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania C. H., Cold Harbor, Siege of was ordered to the command of the First Division, Eighteenth Petersburg, Charlestown, VV. Va., Gilbert's Crossing, Cedar Corps, while in front of Petersburg, a part of his line being within one hundred of the fortifications Creek, Siege of Petersburg, Assault on Petersburg, Va . and yards enemy's Here Sailor's Creek, Va. he was again wounded, and became so weakened on account of He was recommended August 22, 1866, by General U. S. this wound, and those received at Cold Harbor, that he was Grant, commanding the army of the United States, for appoint- given a leave of absence, from which he returned in time to lead the advance of the Tenth and Eighteenth Corps to ment as a field officer in the Regular Army ; was appointed the north of the River, August 29, 1866, Lieutenant-Colonel 36th Regiment, U. S. In- James on the 29th of September, 1864, which re- sulting in the fantry, to date from July 28, 1S66, and declined the appointment storming of Fort Harrison. The next day Gen. in November 6. 1866. Lee, person, assaulted Fort Harrison, with Hoke's and Field's Division, Longstreet's Corps, but was unable to dislodge Stan- nard's Division.
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