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devolved upon him to make surrender of the last army of the Confederacy, when he
returned to civil life, and, like the immortal Lee, his honored chieftain, devoted himself To
the education of the youth of his country. At the time of his death (March 28, 1893,) he was
connected with the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. General Smith attained
the rank of full General in the Confederate service.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL CHARLES S. WINDER BUILDING.—Contains the mess
hall, dish room, commissary and kitchen on the first floor. The E. Bolton Piper
room, containing seventeen beds, chairs, lockers, etc; two small bedrooms, bath-
room and linen-room, also quarters for the servants, on the second floor. This
room is furnished with proceeds of a bequest from the late E. Bolton Piper. The
mess hall was furnished by Lieutenant George W. Wood, of Baltimore. Lieu-
tenant Wood, prior to the war, lived in Louisiana and served with troops from
that State. The commissary department occupies two small rooms, and the kitchen
is on the same floor and convenient to the mess hall. The old Winder Building
was torn down during the summer of 1898, and a new and much enlarged structure
erected, at a cost of some $4,000, the expense of which was defrayed out of the
receipts from the bazaar held in Baltimore in April of that year.

General Winder was educated at West Point, appointed Second Lieutenant of Infantry
and afterwards promoted to be First Lieutenant, and was ordered to the Pacific coast. The
steamer San Francisco, on which the troops took passage from New York, was disabled by
a hurricane off the Atlantic coast, and drilling helpless for many days before the storm, was
reported lost for several weeks. Different vessels rescued the crew and passengers, however,
and Lieutenant Winder and his men, whom he refused to leave, were taken to Liverpool.
For his conduct on this occasion he was promoted to be Captain in the Ninth Regiment
Infantry, being, it is believed, the youngest captain in the army. He was again ordered to
the Pacific coast, and with his company took part in Steptoe's campaign against the
Columbia River Indians, being present at his defeat and perilous retreat under cover of night.
He also took part in Colonel Wright's subsequent successful campaign against the same
Indians. Early in 1861 he resigned his command and offered his services to the Confederate
Government at Montgomery, and was commissioned Captain in the regular Confederate
States Army. Being ordered to Charleston, he was present at the reduction of Fort Sumter.
He was afterwards in the command of the South Carolina Arsenal, until commissioned
Colonel of the Sixth South Carolina Infantry, arriving with his regiment at Manassas just
at the close of the battle of July 21; March 4. 1862, nominated by President Davis to be a
Brigadier-General : March 25. 1862, assigned to the command of the Fourth Brigade, Hill's
Division, but without taking command, was on the emergency of a vacancy in the command
of the Stonewall Brigade, assigned to the same and participated in the Valley campaign of
1862 : August. 1862. assigned to command of Jackson's Division; was mortally wounded