Thomas Kilby Smith

Military Person

1820 – 1887

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Who was Thomas Kilby Smith?

Thomas Kilby Smith was a lawyer, soldier, and diplomat from the state of Ohio who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and then in the postbellum United States Army. He led a brigade and then a division in the Army of the Tennessee in several of the most significant campaigns of the Western Theater of operations before failing health forced him to a series of desk jobs.

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Born
Sep 23, 1820
Boston
Nationality
  • United States of America
Lived in
  • Boston
Died
Dec 14, 1887
New York City

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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