Heroes of the Great Conflict; Life and Services of William Farrar

This book is biography of smith life who's Heroes of the great conflict; life and services of william farrar smith, major general, united states volunteer in the civil war. William Farrar Smith, the subject of this sketch, graduated at West Point in 1845, fourth in a class of forty-one members. He died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 28th of February, 1903 in his seventy-ninth year. William Farrar Smith was born at St. Albans, in Northern Vermont, on the 17th of February, 1824. He came of good New England stock, which emigrated from Massachusetts to the valley of Lake Champlain before the beginning of the last century. William's father was a respectable farmer at or near St. Albans. His own mother was Sarah Butler, a direct descendent of Isaac and Samuel Robinson.