Major (Ret.) Mark A. Smith holds a masters in military studies. He is a U.S. Army veteran with 21 years of service, during which he served as a scout platoon leader, held three company commands, battalion executive officer, brigade and battalion S-4, and was an Army ROTC instructor at Virginia Tech. Smith is the co-author (with Wade Sokolosky) of “To Prepare for Sherman’s Coming”: The Battle of Wise’s Forks, March 1865.
