CIVIL WAR RECORD

OF

JOHN A. SMITH

(Great x 4-Grandfather of Paul D. Mullins)

I enlisted in Old Taswell, Georgia, August 7, 1861, in Company A, 27th Georgia Regiment, for three years. Then in Company B, 32nd Georgia Regiment and was there until the war closed. I started September 1st to Camp Stephens, Georgia, from there to Richmond, Virginia, to Manassas Junction, to Yorktown, to Williamsburg, our first fight to Big Bethel, then back to Richmond and three fights. We fought the Battle of Seven Pines to the Valley of Virginia, fought three fights. McDowell & Shields at Guinea Station, to Warrington fought Butler & Hooker on to Orange Courthouse, fifth, fought Shields, Banks, and McDowell out to Cedar Creek. Sixth fight, Spoon Butler to cross keys, Seventh fight, we fought the five generals through the West Valley up to Mount Jackson, fighting some everyday for 11 days. We marched to an from Mount Jackson to Woodstock for three days and fought two hours each day over the Mountains to Winchester, back to Richmond. Twelfth fight: seven days in evening at the burnt bridge skirmished to the Chickamauga Swamp to White Oak Swamp, four days, the fifth day to a still in White Oak Swamp, the sixth day we fought to Malvern Hill, put the Yankees to the gun boat. We rested for twelve hours, then we ran into five generals that we left at Orange Courthouse, and there fought until Lee came. Then to Harper's Ferry on the Potomac River, then marched to Sharpsburg, Maryland, and had the Bloody fight, then fell back to Virginia, then across the Potomac to the Double Island, then to the Coast of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, then fought the battle of Ocean Pond, then to Savannah, Georgia, to Charleston, South Carolina, fought the battle of John's Island. I was in the siege of Fort Sumpter, then to Greensboro, North Carolina, where I surrendered.