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  • Record No:30526
  • Accession No:THS 457
  • Subject/Title:Brigadier General Thomas Benton Smith (1838-1923).
  • Artist:Unknown
  • Date Created:Unknown
  • Owner/Location: TN State Library and Archives 403 7th Ave. N. Nashville, TN 37243-0312 Web Contact: Preservation - State Library
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  • Materials/Media:Photographic print
  • History:Insignia on collar is rank of colonel. Smith was promoted to Brig. Gen. on 29 July 1864.
  • Notes:Confederate General. Fought at Mill Springs, Shiloh, Baton Rouge, Stone's River, Chickamauga, Atlanta, Dalton to Jonesborough, Franklin, Nashville, & Murfreesboro. Spent last 47 years of his life in an insane asylum.
  • Photographer:Unknown
  • Categories:Portrait photographs; Men; Soldiers; Military;