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Ordnance Sergeant Mark W. Smith was a veteran of both the Seminole and Mexican Wars and would later serve at Fort Griswold in Groton Connecticut where he died in 1871. In October of 1863 he was offered a commission as a captain in the 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery but he had to decline the offer on account of injuries suffered in the Mexican War. Ordnance Sergeant Smith and his wife had five sons, one of whom was killed during the Civil War. Fort Adams History Part 2

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