The excerpt below is from the only book William Alexander Smith is credited with writing about the Anson Guards.
The page below is from the will of William Alexander Smith. The sentence in between the red dots is highly suspicious.
How was Smith able to recover the family heirloom watch from Sherman’s men?
Smith apparently took possession of the watch at some point,
likely without his brother’s knowledge. It’s probably not the first thing he’d stolen from his brother, and it won’t be the last. Smith may have been AT DAVIDSON AS sHERMAN’S ARMY MADE IT’S WAY FROM sAVANNAH TO gOLDSBORO.
