target of the raid. Governor Smith was not at home, and when Mrs. Smith appeared in the front doorway carrying an unloaded pistol (the only weapon she could find), the raiders decided to bypass the house. She then worked to organize the people of St. Albans to mount a pursuit of the raiders, which unsuccessfully attempted to prevent them from escaping to Canada. For her actions in defending the Smith home and efforts to rally the people of St. Albans in pursuing the raiders, Governor Washburn named Mrs. Smith a brevet lieutenant colonel on his staff. Washburn, who served as governor from 1869 until his death in 1870, had served in the Union Army early in the Civil War, and then spent the rest of the conflict as Adjutant General of the Vermont Militia. Under Washburn's direction, units of the militia had attempted to pursue the Confederate raiders, and later patrolled the border with Canada to ensure there were no further efforts to conduct Confederate activities in Vermont. Smith wrote of her personal reminiscences of the St. Albans Raid in The Vermonter:— Death and legacy Smith died in St. Albans on January 6, 1905. She was buried in Greenwood Cemetery. The town of Brainerd, Minnesota was named in her honor. Selected works Seola The iceberg's story, 1881 Selma, 1883 Notes of travel in Mexico and California , 1886 Poems : "gather up the fragments", 1889 Lines to a cricket, holograph poem found in the... by J Gregory Smith, Mrs., 1901 Atla : a story of the lost island, 1886 From dawn to sunrise : a review, historical and philosophical of the religious ideas of mankind, 1876 Personal reminiscences of early life in Vermont : published in the St. Albans Daily Messenger, starting November 22, 1924 Angels and women References Attribution Bibliography External links "In Search of Mrs. J. G. Smith" Angels and Women Online text Official website 1819 births 1905 deaths 19th-century American novelists 19th-century American women writers American fantasy writers American women novelists People from St. Albans, Vermont Novelists from Vermont People of Vermont in the American Civil War Women science fiction and fantasy writers First Ladies and Gentlemen of Vermont Pseudonymous women writers Union Army officers 19th-century pseudonymous writers