This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith Cummins Shatto Warren Finchum Siegmund Siegel Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oMB.2ACI/639 Message Board Post: John S. Smith was a Union Soldier from Grundy County, Missouri he signed up August 21, 1862, at Chillicothe, Livingston County, Missouri for three years he mustered in 25 September 1862 at Benton Barracks, Missouri. He was a private in the 29th Missouri Infantry Volunteers Company I commanded by Captain John S. Cansalus of Infantry and Colonel John S. Cavender in the war of 1861. John Smith Pvt. Co. I 29 Reg't Missouri Infantry Appears on COMPANY MUSTER ROLL for Jan.-Feb. 1863 Remarks: Died in Camp Grover, La opposite Vicksburg Feb 21, 1863. SIGNED M. DAVIS CASUALTY SHEET John Smith Rank: Pvt. Company I Regiment 29 Infantry State Missouri Nature of Casualty Death ( looks like Dr. J. W. Saunders) Date of Death Feb. 21, 1863 Place of Death Camp Grover, La From what source this information was obtained. Register of deceased soldiers. REMARKS: NO EFFECTS Geo. B. French Pension files show that John Smith died at Camp Grover, LA near Young's Point, La 21 February 1863 of Typhoid Fever, Pneumonia, and Chronic Diarrhea while in the U. S. Service signed by Surgeon B. W. Sergeant and confirmed by the Adjutant General Reports. He was on the rolls of Company I of 29th Regiment for the months of January and February of 1863 and is reported died at Camp Grover, LA. John S. Smith married Elmada Cummins February 11, 1862 in Grundy County, Missouri and they had one son John Segal Smith born October 25, 1862 that he never saw. John S. Smith was my gg grandfather.