Andrew Jackson Smith (28 April 1815 – 30 January 1897) was a Union Army Major-General during the American Civil War.
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Andrew Jackson Smith was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1815, and he graduated from West Point in 1838 and served in the US Army in the American Southwest, the Mexican-American War, and in the Indian wars in Washington and Oregon. In 1862, he was promoted to Brigadier-General and commander of the cavalry in the Department of the Missouri, and, while attached to the Army of the Tennessee, he captured Arkansas Post and commanded a division at the Siege of Vicksburg. In 1864, he led one of the three Union armies during the Red River Campaign in Louisiana. On 14–15 July 1864, he defeated Stephen D. Lee's Confederate army in the Battle of Tupelo in Mississippi, and he distinguished himself at the Battle of Nashville in December and in the capture of Mobile, Alabama in 1865. After the war, he served as a cavalry colonel in the American West, and he retired in 1869 to become Postmaster of St. Louis, Missouri, where he died in 1897.