With sincere gratitude to the St. Charles County Historical Society in St. Charles, Missouri for the donation of its David H. Smith Collection of Civil War enlistment, promotion, furlough, and honorable discharge paperwork to 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment’s Story, we present this gallery of key documents from the U.S. Civil War Compiled Military Service Records of First Sergeant David H. Smith, Company H, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (click on individual documents to enlarge):
- Promotion to Corporal, 21 October 1862 (public domain)
- Reenlistment Paperwork, Fort Jefferson, Florida, 1863 (public domain)
- 30-Day Furlough Extension, 1863 (public domain)
- Promotion to First Sergeant, 21 April 1865 (public domain)
- Honorable Discharge Paperwork, 25 December 1865 (public domain)
- U.S. Civil War Pension General Index Card (public domain)






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