John Godbold Smith

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John Godbold Smith

Birth
Alabama, USA
Death
1875 (aged 31–32)
Decatur, Wise County, Texas, USA
Burial
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A 7th US 1850 Census record taken In Natchitoches parish Louisiana, of the Smith family that lists John Godbold as a seven-year-old who was from Alabama.

An 8th US 1860 census record that was taken in Natchitoches parish, Louisiana that states that John Godbold Smith was 17 years old.

There are numerous Civil War records of John Godbold Smith who was in the 19th Louisiana Infantry Company D. He was captured at the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Tennessee on November 25,1863 and sent to Rock Island prison for the remainder of the war. In the McIntyre Family bible it was recorded that eventually he died from his war wounds.

Union forces in the Military Division of the Mississippi under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Missionary Ridge and defeated the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by Gen. Braxton Bragg, forcing it to retreat to Georgia.

Rock Island prison also introduced many deadly diseases to the inmates. John Godbold Smith was injured during the Battle of Missionary Ridge and likely also contracted an illness while he was a POW there and that this may have also shortened his life. He died from his war wounds after leaving Rock Island Prison.

The 1880 census of Wise county Texas shows his wife, Ann Caroline (McIntyre) Smith and 10 yr old Leonard McIntyre Smith and 12 year old Henry Hunter Smith. A Smith relative once told me that John Godbold Smith died from his war wounds after leaving Rock Island Prison.

On the 10th US 1880 Census that was taken in Precinct 2 of Wise County Texas. On that it was recorded that an A.C. Smith, (Ann Caroline (McIntyre) Smith and two children, Henry Hunter Smith 12 years and Leonard McIntyre Smith 10 years old. A.C. (McIntyre) Smith was listed as widowed.
A 7th US 1850 Census record taken In Natchitoches parish Louisiana, of the Smith family that lists John Godbold as a seven-year-old who was from Alabama.

An 8th US 1860 census record that was taken in Natchitoches parish, Louisiana that states that John Godbold Smith was 17 years old.

There are numerous Civil War records of John Godbold Smith who was in the 19th Louisiana Infantry Company D. He was captured at the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Tennessee on November 25,1863 and sent to Rock Island prison for the remainder of the war. In the McIntyre Family bible it was recorded that eventually he died from his war wounds.

Union forces in the Military Division of the Mississippi under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Missionary Ridge and defeated the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by Gen. Braxton Bragg, forcing it to retreat to Georgia.

Rock Island prison also introduced many deadly diseases to the inmates. John Godbold Smith was injured during the Battle of Missionary Ridge and likely also contracted an illness while he was a POW there and that this may have also shortened his life. He died from his war wounds after leaving Rock Island Prison.

The 1880 census of Wise county Texas shows his wife, Ann Caroline (McIntyre) Smith and 10 yr old Leonard McIntyre Smith and 12 year old Henry Hunter Smith. A Smith relative once told me that John Godbold Smith died from his war wounds after leaving Rock Island Prison.

On the 10th US 1880 Census that was taken in Precinct 2 of Wise County Texas. On that it was recorded that an A.C. Smith, (Ann Caroline (McIntyre) Smith and two children, Henry Hunter Smith 12 years and Leonard McIntyre Smith 10 years old. A.C. (McIntyre) Smith was listed as widowed.


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