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SMITH, Preston, soldier, born in Giles county, Tennessee, 25 December, 1823" died in Georgia, 20 September, 1863. He received his early education at a country school, and at Jackson college, Columbia, Tennessee He stud-led law in Columbia, and after practising there for several years removed to Waynesboro', Tennessee, and subsequently to Memphis. He became colonel of the 154th Tennessee regiment of militia, which was afterward mustered into the service of the Confederacy, and he was promoted to brigadier-general, 27 October, 1862. He was severely wounded at the battle of Shiloh, and commanded his brigade under General E. Kirby Smith at Richmond, Kentucky He was killed, with nearly all his staff, by a sudden volley during a night attack at Chickamauga, Georgia
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