Francis Henney Smith was a United States Military Academy graduate, United States Army second lieutenant, college professor, including teacher at West Point, Confederate Army colonel, Virginia Militia general, first superintendent of Virginia Military Institute (VMI) and its rebuilder after the American Civil War and noted mathematician.
Read more about Francis Henney Smith: Early Life, American Civil War, Later Life
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