Thursday, May 15, 2014

Gaines C. Smith: Mexican-American War service


name: Smith  Gaines C.  
age at enlistment: 20
eye color: black
hair color: black
complexion: dark
height: 5'9
birth state: Tennessee
birth county: Giles
occupation: schoolmaster
enlistment: August 10, 1847
where: Athens
by whom: Capt. Jones
discharged: July 15, 1848
cause of discharge: exp. of service
where: Mobile, Alabama

Ancestry.com. U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Original data: Register of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M233, 81 rolls); Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Record Group 94; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

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