Charles Ferguson Smith
Charles Ferguson Smith (April 24, 1807 – April 25, 1862) was an American military officer who served in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War and the Utah War. He served as a Union Army major general during the American Civil War.
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Quotes
[edit]- Battle is the ultimate to which the whole life's labor of an officer should be directed. He may live to the age of retirement without seeing a battle; still he must always be getting ready for it exactly as if he knew the hour of the day it is to break upon him. And then, whether it come late or early, he must be willing to fight — he must fight.
- Conversation with Lew Wallace in Paducah, KY (September, 1861); reported in Lew Wallace: An Autobiography (New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1906), ch. 40, p. 344
External links
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Encyclopedic article on Charles Ferguson Smith on Wikipedia
