Battery Smead (Battery Smeade)
2012-04-05

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The battery west of Fort De Russy to be called Battery Smead, after Capt. John R. Smead, Fifth U.S. Artillery, who was killed, August 30, 1862, at the battle near Centreville, Va.

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  • "Appendix C," The Civil War Defenses of Washington: Historic Resource Study, http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/civilwar/hrsa1-c.htm. View source information