However, Smith delayed his advance waiting on one of the units, Waring's brigade, which was ice bound near Columbus, Kentucky. On January 27, 1864, as part of the Meridian Campaign, Smith was given the command of General Hurlbut's force of 7,000 cavalry, to be consolidated from their positions throughout western Kentucky and Tennessee, along with the 2,500 that was already under his command. After serving in western Virginia, he was appointed brigadier general ( volunteers) on Apto rank from Ap Smith participated in the Vicksburg campaign, commanding the XVI Corps' first division. In 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War, Smith joined the 13th Ohio Infantry, and by June he was commissioned as its colonel. Smith established the engineering company Parkinson & Smith in 1857, and was involved in the first surveys for a bridge between the United States and Canada across the Niagara River near Niagara Falls.īust of Smith by Solon Borglum at Vicksburg National Military Park Smith resigned from the Army on Jto accept a position with the Illinois Central Railroad.
He furthered this degree at West Point as soon as he left the university, graduating sixth in his class from the U.S. Smith was born in Tarlton, Ohio, and graduated from Ohio University in 1849 with an engineering degree. In civilian life, he was a renowned engineer involved in bridge construction that included the building of the first large all steel bridge in the world. William Sooy Smith (J– March 4, 1916) was a West Point graduate and career civil engineer who became a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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