Image: Commodore smith leon

Description: Portrayed is Leon Smith commander of the Texas Marine Department, as published in governor Lubbock's memoirs Six decades in Texas (1900). The caption reads "Commodore Leon Smith, C.S.N", however Smith was never officially in the confederate navy, and while described variously as lieutenant, captain, major, colonel, and commodore he was not actually a commissioned by either army or navy.
Title: Commodore smith leon
Credit: Six decades in Texas; or, Memoirs of Francis Richard Lubbock, governor of Texas in war time, 1861-63. A personal experience in business, war, and politics. Published 1900. Page 433. https://archive.org/details/sixdecadesintexa00lubb
Author: Book by Francis Richard Lubbock, photographer unknown
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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