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Union General William Farrar Smith graduated from West point in 1845. He ranked fourth among his graduating class of forty-one cadets. He was a classmate and friend of his superior officer, General George B. McClellan, who graduated a year after Smith. Smith served with McClellan at the Battle of Antietam and in the Peninsula campaign of 1862.

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