Travels of a Hobgoblin Taphophile: The Great Locomotive Chase

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Sunday, July 14, 2024

Ovid Wellford Smith (Medal of Honor) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Ovid Wellford Smith

Medal of Honor

The General

Great Locomotive Chase

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Ovid Wellford Smith (Medal Of Honor) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Ovid Wellford Smith (enlisted as James Smith)

Medal of Honor recipient
Rank and organization: Private, Company I, 2d Ohio Infantry

Place and date: Georgia, April 1862

Date of issue: 6 July 1864

Citation: One of the 19 of 22 men (including 2 civilians) who, by direction of Gen. Mitchell (or Buell), penetrated nearly 200 miles south into enemy territory and captured a railroad train at Big Shanty, Ga., in an attempt to destroy the bridges and tract between Chattanooga and Atlanta.

Medal of Honor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor

Civil War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

Great Locomotive Chase
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Locomotive_Chase