1st Delaware Infantry Regiment
The 1st Delaware Infantry Regiment, later known as the 1st Delaware Veteran Infantry Regiment was a United States volunteer infantry regiment raised for Union Army service in the American Civil War. Part of the II Corps it served in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
Brigadier Thomas A. Smyth, commander of the 1st Delaware 1863-1864
1st Delaware Infantry Monument, Hancock Avenue, Gettysburg Battlefield
Thomas Alfred Smyth was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was the last Union general killed in the war. In March 1867, he was nominated and confirmed a brevet major general of volunteers posthumously to rank from April 7, 1865.
Thomas Alfred Smyth during the American Civil War
Burke's Tavern, where Smyth died