commander, 5 engagements

Battles of Gustavus Woodson Smith

Confederate Army general (1821-1896)

Gustavus Woodson Smith is recorded as a commander at 5 placed engagements in the atlas between 1862 and 1864: 4 battles and 1 siege, all in present-day United States. Taken in date order, the sites lie 1,258 km apart end to end, 314 km between engagements on average. Most belong to American Civil War (5).

5 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

5 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

American Civil War 5

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
7 May 1862	Battle of Eltham's Landing	New Kent County, Virginia, United States		Inconclusive
31 May 1862	Battle of Seven Pines	Henrico County, Virginia, United States	41 km W	Inconclusive
July 1862	Peninsula Campaign	Virginia Peninsula, Virginia, United States	68 km SE	Confederate victory
22 July 1864	Battle of Atlanta	DeKalb County, Georgia, United States	802 km SW	Union victory
30 November 1864	Battle of Honey Hill	Jasper County, South Carolina, United States	347 km SE	Confederate victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.