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MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 29, credited to Benson, VT
Unit(s): 14th VT INF
Service: comn Chaplain, 14th VT INF, 10/8/62 (10/12/62), m/o 7/30/63; Congregationalist
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VITALS
Birth: 03/10/1833, Johnstown, NY
Death: 04/29/1912
Burial: Woodlands Cemetery, Cambridge, NY
Marker/Plot: Section G Lot 50
Gravestone photographer: Heidi McColgan
Findagrave Memorial #: 175638755
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 8/18/1800, VT
Portrait?: Findagrave, VHS Collections
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: Not Found
(If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war)
Remarks: Died in Burlington, VT; CMSR: on January 30, 1863, Rev. Smart was "hereby detailed as Post Chaplain - He will report at General Stoughton's Head Quarters Fairfax Court House for duty."
DESCENDANTS
2nd Great Grandfather of William Stevenson Smart, New Buffalo, MI
2nd Great Grandfather of Brian Breslin, Springville, NY
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BURIAL:
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Woodlands Cemetery, Cambridge, NY
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VHS - Reunion Society Collection
VHS - Portrait Files (FPO)
(Courtesy of Brian Breslin)
Courtesy of William Stevenson Smart, his 2nd great-grandson
(Courtesy of Brian Breslin)
Obituary
Source: St. Albans Daily Messenger, May 2, 1912WAS CIVIL WAR CHAPLAIN
The Rev. William S. Smart Dies in Burlington
Burlington, April 29. - The Rev. William S. Smart, a retired Congregational minister, died this morning at the home of his son, Rev. I.C. Smart, after a short illness. He was in his eightieth year. He was born in Johnstown, N.Y., ordained in 1861 at Benson, preached 22 years at Albany, N.Y., 12 years at Brandon and was chaplain of the Fourteenth Vermont volunteers in the Civil war.
Contributed by Tom Boudreau.