Smith Family Letters
Four Carroll County, Virginia Soldiers in the American Civil War, 1861-1865
Stephen M. Smith to Mary G. Smith, 3 February 1865.
PREFACE CHRONOLOGY PERSONS PLACES REGIMENTS REGULARIZED TRANSCRIPT
In this last letter of the series Stephen Smith reports that he has been ill for weeks and is preparing to return home. The 54th Regiment was reconstituted at the end of March, merged with the 63rd, but it seems that Stephen’s days as a soldier were over. He may have been given a medical furlough or may have gone absent without leave; no records seem to have been kept and Trigg's detachment was remote from the remainder of the regiment.
William A. Smith to Alexander Smith, 16 July 1861.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 19 August 1861.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 7 September 1861.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 18 September 1861.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 6 October 1861.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 21 October 1861.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 24 May 1862.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 16 June 1862.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 22 July 1862.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 4 August 1862.
James R. Smith to Stephen M. Smith and Polly G. Smith, 29 August 1862.
William A. Smith to Alexander Smith, 4 September 1862.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 23 October 1862.
John N. Ridgeway to R. P. Wright, 6 November 1862.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 23 December 1862.
James R. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 30 December 1862.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 3 February 1863.
William A. Smith to Polly G. Mitchell and Sallie E. Smith, 9 February 1863.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 9 February 1863.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 3 March 1863.
Barton Smith to Alexander Smith, 3 March 1863.
James R. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 7 March 1863.
Barton Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 20 March 1863.
James R. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 18 April 1863.
Barton Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 27 April 1863.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 28 April 1863.
William A. Smith to Alexander Smith, 4 May 1863.
Barton Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 7 May 1863.
James R. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 25 May 1863.
James R. Smith to Stephen M. Smith and Mary G. Smith, 26 May 1863.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 2 June 1863.
Barton Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 17 May 1863.
James R. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 21 July 1863.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 30 July 1863.
William A. Smith to Alexander Smith, 14 August 1863.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 17 August 1863.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 22 September 1863.
James R. Smith to Stephen M. Smith and Mary G. Smith, 26 September 1863.
James R. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 21 October 1863.
William A. Smith to James R. Smith, 26 November 1863.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 3 January 1864.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 23 March 1864.
William A. Smith to Stephen M. Smith, 29 April 1864.
Stephen M. Smith to Mary G. Smith, 4 December 1864.
Stephen M. Smith to Mary G. Smith, 18 December 1864.
Stephen M. Smith to Mary G. Smith, 22 December 1864.
Stephen M. Smith to Mary G. Smith, 25 December 1864.
Stephen M. Smith to Mary G. Smith, 8 January 1865.
Stephen M. Smith to Mary G. Smith, 12 January 1865.
Stephen M. Smith to Mary G. Smith, 19 January 1865.
‣  Stephen M. Smith to Mary G. Smith, 3 February 1865.
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Camp, Feb. 3rd 1865.

Dear Mary, I thank you for your kindness in sending me the provisions, though as for eating the provisions I can’t do any for it. I can’t eat anything or have not eat any thing for three weeks but a little mush and milk. It is reported here that we all have to go to Richmond in a few days, but there is so little truth in our officers that we know not when to believe any thing we here.

Mary, you don’t know how I want to get home once more, and get well, and get to stay at home. Mary, I want you to tell Uncle Peter I want him to come as soon as he can, Munday if he can, for the rest of the boys will leave here about that time. I will write no more now; I hope to be at home soon.

Yours,
S. M. Smith.
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