Smith Family Letters
Four Carroll County, Virginia Soldiers in the American Civil War, 1861-1865
PREFACE CHRONOLOGY PERSONS PLACES REGIMENTS STATISTICS
Appears in:
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 Stephen M. Smith, 23 October 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.
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 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 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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Stephen Mitchell  Smith
Born: 15 November 1832
Died: 21 January 1913
  
Occupation[s]:
blacksmith
“Stephen Mitchell married Mary Gillespie Lindsey (1833-1898) in 1855. They had five children. After Mary’s death, he married Emily [A.V. Stone]. Since Stephen was the only blacksmith in the region, he was exempted from military service for most of the Civil War. He served in the New River Valley in a detachment commanded by Robert Craig Trigg of Christiansburg from December 1864 to February 1865. Apparently no service records exist to indicate whether he was a volunteer or a conscript, or whether he deserted or left due to illness.
Parents:
Charity Mitchell
Spouse[s]:
Emily A. V. Stone Smith
Children:
Leander W. Smith
Charity G. Smith
Stephen Temple Smith
J. Crockett Smith
Military Career:
enlisted as a private in 54th Virginia Infantry December 1864
Sources: 
1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
Smith Family Letters, Ms1996-018 - Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va. (http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/vt/viblbv00410.xml.frame)
Weaver, Jeffrey C., and G. L. Sherwood. 54th Virginia Infantry. Lynchburg, Va.: H.E. Howard, 1993. Print.