Wallace.
General Smith sent for me to meet him on his boat, and ordered me to push on under escort of the two gunboats, Lexington and Tyler, commanded by Captains Gwin and Shirk, United States Navy.

I was to land at some point below Eastport, and make a break of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, between Tuscumbia and Corinth.

General Smith was quite unwell, and was suffering from his leg, which was swollen and very sore, from a mere abrasion in stepping into a small boat.

This actually mortified, and resulted in his death about a month after, viz., April 25, 1862.

He was adjutant of the Military Academy during the early part of my career there, and afterward commandant of cadets.