Confederate Biography : A. F. SMITH, Kerr county, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p.  163

Alfred F. Smith was born in Franklin county, Ga., in August 1838.  He moved 
with his parents to Pickens county, Alabama, and at the outbreak of the war 
between the states enlisted in Co. I, Twenty-third Georgia regiment.  
During the greater part of his servie he was orderly sergeant of his 
company.  Much of his service was in Virginia, where he participated in 
many battles, always doing what is required of a soldier.  He was made a 
prisoner at Chancellorsville and confined in Fort Delaware until his 
exchange.  He was wounded in the thigh during one of the last battles of
the war.  Mr. Smith was married to Miss Harriet Freeman in 1860.  He 
removed to Texas in 1873 and two years later settled in Kerr county, where 
he died September 21, 1906.  His wife and eight children survive him.  He 
was a leading member of the Baptist church and was ready at the final call.