Andrew Jackson Smith/Medal of Honor
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A slave that fought in the Civil War received the Medal of Honor in 2001.
Waymark Code: WMBDY
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 04/27/2006
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This Medal of Honor recipient was born a slave in Lyon County, Ky., on September 3, 1843. Andrew Jackson Smith escaped to Union Army at 19 and fell in with 41st Illinois. Wounded at Battle of Shiloh. Recuperated at Clinton, Illinois, where he heard that blacks could join the Union Army. He mustered in Co. B, 55th Mass. Colored Infantry, May 16, 1863.
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Posthumously awarded Medal of Honor in 2001 for gallantry for saving regimental colors when color bearer was killed at the Battle of Honey Hill in South Carolina, Nov. 30, 1864, during Civil War. He lived, bought, and sold land Between the Rivers area after war. Dies 1932. Buried at nearby Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.
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