Oskaloosa Minnewando Smith was born 11 October 1845 in Indiana. He was the son of Isaac Smith (b. 1818 in Vermont), who was working as a printer and living with his family in the city of Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana, at the time of the 1860 census. During the Civil War, Oskaloosa M. Smith entered the army as a musician and later served as a Quartermaster Sergeant. On 1 December 1861, from Ripley County, Indiana, he mustered into the 13th Indiana Infantry, Company I. He was commissioned as Adjutant for the 155th regiment and msutered on 25 April 1865; at that time his residence was listed in Madison, IN. During the Indiana War Era, he transferred to the Regular Army in 1867, assigned to the 22nd U.S. Infantry. He was brevetted to Captain for "gallantry against hostile Indians" at the Battle of Spring Creek, Montana, in 1876. He served as the Regimental Adjutant for the unit from 1881-1884. He died on 23 March 23, 1910.
From the description of Photograph album [graphic] ca. 1860s-ca. 1880s (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 62508976
