Everything about Gustavus Woodson Smith totally explained
Gustavus Woodson Smith (
November 30,
1821 –
June 24,
1896), more commonly known as
G.W. Smith, was a career
U.S. Army officer who fought in the
Mexican-American War, a civil engineer, and a
major general in the
Confederate States Army during the
American Civil War.
Smith was born in
Georgetown, Kentucky. A graduate of the
United States Military Academy at
West Point, he was trained as a
civil engineer. After serving in the
U.S. Army, he resigned his commission to become a civilian engineer in
New York City, where he became Streets Commissioner.
Smith's home state of Kentucky became a
border state when the
American Civil War broke out. Some months afterwards, he presented himself at
Richmond to serve the
Confederate States of America. Commissioned as a
major general, he served in Northern Virginia and fought in the
Battle of Seven Pines near
Richmond during the
Peninsula Campaign. He briefly took command of what would become the
Army of Northern Virginia after Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston was wounded. However, he suffered a nervous breakdown upon taking command and was replaced by Gen.
Robert E. Lee the following day,
June 1,
1862.
Resigning his commission, he served as interim
Confederate States Secretary of War before resuming a military command in Georgia in 1864.
He died in
New York City and is buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery,
New London, Connecticut.
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