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A nice bust shot in an oval image of General Giles A. Smith.  Smith started his Civil War career as a captain of the 8th Missouri Infantry (US).  After Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and Corinth, Smith succeeded his brother as colonel of the 8th Missouri.  In the attack on Chickasaw Bluffs in December, 1862 and the capture of Arkansas Post in January, 1863, he commanded a brigade, first in the XII Caorps and then in the XV Corps.  Smith served through out  the ensuing Vicksburg campaign and the subsequent expulsion of General Joseph Johnson at Jackson, Mississippi.  He was severly wounded at Missionary Ridge.  He led a division of the XVII Corps at the battle of Atlanta.  He was brevetted major general on September 1, 1864, and led his division on the March to the Sea, and on to the Carolina campaign.

 

THe image is of a bearded Smith in his brigadier's uniform.  There is no backmark but a  two cent President Washington stamp is on the back.