Confederate right flank, which he led personally, he saw some of his men waver. He yelled to them, "Damn you gentlemen, I see skulkers, I'll have none here. Come on, you volunteers, come on. You volunteered to be killed for love of country, and now you can be. You are only damned volunteers. I'm only a soldier, and don't want to be killed, but you came to be killed and now you can be." Smith's experience, dignity, and unselfish character made him Grant's mainstay in the early days of the war. When theater commander Major General Henry Halleck became distrustful and perhaps envious of Grant, he briefly relieved him of field command of the Army's expedition up the Tennessee River toward Corinth, Mississippi and gave that responsibility to Smith. However, Halleck soon restored Grant to field command (intervention by President Abraham Lincoln may have been a factor). Grant's restoration was fortunate because by the time Grant reached Savannah, Tennessee, Smith had already met with an accident while jumping into a rowboat that seriously injured his leg, forcing him out of field duty. His senior brigadier, W.H.L. Wallace, led his division (and was fatally wounded) at the Battle of Shiloh. Death Smith died of an infection following his foot injury and chronic dysentery at Savannah, Tennessee, and was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. The early close of his career in high command deprived the Union army of one of its best leaders, and his absence was nowhere more felt than on the battlefield of Shiloh, where the Federals paid heavily for the inexperience of their generals. A month before his death, he had been made major general of volunteers. Three forts were named in his honor. The first Fort C. F. Smith was part of the perimeter defenses of Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War. A second Fort C. F. Smith was located at the Bighorn River crossing of the Bozeman Trail in the Montana Territory during Red Cloud's War. The third was located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and was constructed under the supervision of Union Colonel and future U.S. President Benjamin Harrison. Dates of rank Cadet, United States Military Academy - 1 July 1820 2nd Lieutenant, 2nd Artillery - 1 July 1825 1st Lieutenant, 2nd Artillery - 30 May 1862 Captain, 2nd Artillery - 7 July 1838 Brevet Major - 9 May 1846 Brevet Lieutenant Colonel -