RICHARD and STEPHEN SMITH -- 118thINFANTRYBUSINESSMEN FROM WARREN COUNTY - Two brothers, Richard Pritchard Smithand Stephen Hookey Smith enlisted in the 118th Infantry in August 1862in Plattsburgh. Their parents, John Smith, from Rhode Island, and SarahPritchard, who was born in Wales, were farming in Caldwell, WarrenCounty, NY.Richard, aged 39, was enrolled in Plattsburgh and mustered in a captainof Company D which had been recruited at Horicon, Chester, Johnsburg andLuzerne. By September 10th, Stephen, who was 24, had been commissionedas 1st lieutenant in Company G, which was composed of men fromLuzerne, Bolton, Caldwell, Johnsburg, Stony Creek and Warrensburg.Stephen was the first to leave the regiment. On November 20, 1862, heresigned his commission and was discharged for disability. Less than amonth later, Richard resigned and was discharged for disability. Bothreturned to Warren County.Stephen set himself up in the mercantile business in Caldwell and, inlater life, ran a couple of hotels. He died of "a carbuncle on the backof his neck" in 1901 when he was 63 years old and left to mourn him werehis second wife and one son.Richard also became a businessman with interests in lumbering andmerchandizing. He also was a Member of the Assembly, Sheriff of theCounty, and Town Supervisor four times. In 1890, he left a wife and fiveof their surviving nine children.
