Company B 31st Connecticut Colored Infantry

William Henry Harrison Smith went by Harrison Smith for most of his life. He was born in Shepherdstown, Virginia (now West Virginia), and enlisted on February 17, 1864, in Hartford, Connecticut, as a private, with Company B of the 31^st Connecticut Colored Infantry. He stood at five feet and five inches tall, with dark hair, eyes, and complexion, and was twenty-one years old at the time. He was sent to a division hospital on July 30^th, 1864, during a charge near Petersburg, Virginia, when he suffered a gunshot wound through his left shoulder and jaw.