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Cdv of 22nd US Infantry Officer Oskaloosa M. Smith, taken during the civil war as a member of the 155th Indiana Infantry. Smith participated in one of the most famous battles of the Indian Wars and wrote a detailed description of that battle. See below for more details and click on the link below for battle information.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Oskaloosa Minnewando Smith was born 11 October 1845 in Indiana. He was the son of Isaac Smith (b. 1818 in Vermont), who was working as a printer and living with his family in the city of Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana, at the time of the 1860 census. During the Civil War, Oskaloosa M. Smith entered the army as a musician and later served as a Quartermaster Sergeant. On 1 December 1861, from Ripley County, Indiana, he mustered into the 13th Indiana Infantry, Company I. He was commissioned as Adjutant for the 155th regiment and mustered on 25 April 1865; at that time his residence was listed as Madison, Indiana. During the Indian War Era, he transferred to the Regular Army in 1867, assigned to the 22nd U.S. Infantry. He was brevetted to Captain for “gallantry against hostile Indians” at the Battle of Spring Creek, Montana, in 1876. He served as the Regimental Adjutant for the unit from 1881–1884. In 1885 he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston in Texas, where he served as Judge Advocate and Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier General David S. Stanley. In 1890 he transferred to the Commissary Department where he retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1900. The 1900 U.S. census lists Smith at the Army and Navy General Hospital in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The record lists his marital status as single, and indicates that his mother was born in Kentucky. He died on 23 March 1910, according to the memorial plaque at Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis. Smith wrote a history of the 22nd Infantry Regiment during the Indian Wars.