Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te Pakanga Paniora-Amerika i te tau 1898, i mahi a Smedberg hei kaitohutohu mo te Brigadier General Samuel Baldwin Marks Young, nana nei i whakahau tetahi o nga pirihimana e rua i hanga te wehenga Cavalry i whakahaua e Joseph Wheeler. I uru ia ki te Pakanga o Las Guasimas me
Ko te Pakanga o San Juan Hill, a i whakamoemitihia e Leonard Wood, te rangatira o te 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment ("Rough Riders"), he waahanga no te whakahau a Young. I whakawhiwhia a Smedberg ki te Whetu Whakataunga hei whakanui i tana toa i te wa o te pakanga. I te wa i hangaia ai te Silver Star i te 1932, ka hurihia te whakapaipai a Smedberg ki te tohu hou.